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TREE  OF  LIFE 

An  Expose  of  Physical  Regenesis 
on  &e  Three-fold  Plane  of  Bodily, 
Chemical  and  Spiritual  Operation. 

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DR.  GEORGE  W.  CAREY 

Author  of  Textbooks  on 
<TThe  Chemistry  of  Life 


Published  by 

DR.  GEORGE  W.  CAREY 

Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  U.S.A. 
1917 


CopyrigKted  1917 
by 

DR.  GEORGE  W.  CAREY 

Los  Angeles 


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INTRODUCTION 

WHAT  JEHOVAH,  EVE,  DAVID  AND  JOHN  SAY 

"And  Jehovah  God  commanded  the  man  saying, 
Of  every  tree  in  the  garden  thou  mayest  freely  eat: 
but  of  the  tree  of  the  knowledge  of  good  and  evil, 
thou  shalt  not  eat  of  it,  for  the  day  that  thou  eatest 
thereof,  thou  shalt  surely  die. 

"And  the  woman  said  unto  the  serpent,  'Of  the 
fruit  of  the  trees  of  the  garden  we  may  eat:  but  of 
the  fruit  of  the  tree  which  is  in  the  midst  of  the 
garden,  God  hath  said,  Ye  shall  not  eat  of  it,  neither 
shall  ye  touch  it,  lest  ye  die." — Gen.  1:16. 

"And  he  shall  be  like  a  tree  planted  by  the  streams 
of  water, 

"That  bringeth  forth  its  fruit  in  its  Season,  whose 
leaf  also  does  not  wither, 

"And  whatsoever  he  doeth  shall  prosper." — David 
in  Psalm  I. 

"And  on  this  side  of  the  river  and  on  that  was  the 
tree  of  life  bearing  twelve  manner  of  fruits,  yielding 
its  fruit  every  month:  And  the  leaves  of  the  tree 
were  for  the  healing  of  the  Nations." — John  the 
Revelator,  Chapt.  22. 


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PART  ONE  : 

Wonders  and  Possibilities  of  the 
Human  Body 

HE  human  race  has  been  asleep,  and  has 
dreamed  that  property  and  money  are 
the  true  wealth  of  a  nation,  sacrificing 
men,  women  and  children  to  the  chimer- 
ical idea  that  danced  in  visionary  splen- 
dor through  their  brains.  The  result  of  this  is  to  be 
seen  in  the  uneasiness  that  prevails  everywhere.  But 
humanity  is  waking  up,  slowly  but  surely  and  begin- 
ning to  realize  that  it,  itself,  is  the  most  precious 
thing  on  earth. 

The  old-established  statement  that  the  individuals 
that  make  up  the  race  are  imperfect  is  no  more  true 
than  that  a  pile  of  lumber  is  imperfect,  that  is  to  be 
afterward  reformed  or  built  into  a  house.  As  it  is 
the  carpenter's  business  to  take  the  lumber,  which  is 
perfect  as  material,  and  build  the  house,  so  it  is  the 
legitimate  work  of  spiritual  man  to  take  the  perfect 
material  everywhere  present  and  build,  by  the  perfect 
law  of  chemistry  and  mathematics,  the  perfected,  har- 
monious human  being,  and  with  this  material,  employ 
the  same  law  to  build  up  society  collectively. 

It  is  a  well-known  physiological  fact  that  the  blood 
is  the  basic  material  of  which  the  human  body  is  con- 
tinually builded.  As  is  the  blood,  so  is  the  body;  as 
is  the  body,  so  is  the  brain;  as  is  the  brain,  so  is  the 
quality  of  thought.  As  a  man  is  builded,  so  thinks  he. 
According  to  the  views  of  students  of  modern  al- 

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chemy,  the  Bible — both  the  Old  and  New  Testaments 
— are  symbolical  writings,  based  primarily  upon  this 
very  process  of  body  building.  The  word  Alchemy 
really  means  Fleshology.  It  is  derived  from  Chem, 
an  ancient  Egyptian  word,  meaning  flesh.  The  word 
Egypt  also  means  flesh,  or  anatomy. 

Alchemy,  however,  in  its  broader  scope,  means  the 
science  of  solar  rays.  Gold  may  be  traced  to  the  Sun's 
rays.  The  word  gold  means  solar  essence.  The 
transmutation  of  gold  does  not  mean  the  process  of 
making  gold,  but  does  mean  the  process  of  changing 
gold,  solar  rays,  into  all  manner  of  materialized 
forms,  vegetable,  mineral,  etc.  The  ancient  alchem- 
ist studied  the  process  of  Nature  in  her  operations 
from  the  volatile  to  the  fixed,  the  fluid  to  the  solid, 
the  essence  to  the  substance,  or  the  abstract  to  the 
concrete,  all  of  which  may  be  summed  up  in  the 
changing  of  spirit  into  matter.  In  reality,  the  alchem- 
ist did  not  try  to  do  anything.  He  simply  tried  to 
search  out  nature's  processes  in  order  that  he  might 
comprehend  her  marvelous  operations. 

To  be  sure,  language  was  used  that  to  us  seems 
symbolical  and  often  contradictory,  but  it  was  not  so 
intended,  nor  so  at  all  in  reality.  We  speak  in  sym- 
bols. If  a  man  is  in  delirium,  caused  by  alcohol  in  his 
brain-cells,  we  say  he  has  "snakes  in  his  boots."  Of 
course,  no  one  supposes  that  the  words  are  to  be 
taken  literally.  Yet  if  our  civilization  should  be 
wiped  out,  and  our  literature  translated  after  four 
or  five  thousand  years,  those  who  read  our  history 
might  be  puzzled  to  know  what  was  meant  by  "snakes 
in  his  boots." 

Again,  it  has  been  believed  by  most  people  that  the 

words,   "transmutation  of  base  metals  into  gold," 

used  by  alchemists,  referred  to  making  gold.     But  a 

careful  study  of  the  Hebrew  Cosmogony,  and  the 

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Wonders  and  Possibilities  of  the  Human  Body 

Kabala,  will  reveal  the  fact  that  the  alchemist  al- 
ways referred  to  solar  rays  when  he  used  the  word 
gold.  "Base  metals,"  simply  means  matter,  or  basic. 
The  dissolving,  or  disintegration  of  matter,  the  com- 
bustian  of  wood  or  coal,  seemed  as  wonderful  to 
these  philosophers  as  the  growth  of  wood  or  the 
formation  of  coal  or  stone.  So,  the  transmutation 
of  base  metals  into  gold  simply  meant  the  process  of 
changing  the  fixed  into  the  volatile,  or  the  demate- 
rialization  of  matter,  either  by  heat  or  chemical 
process. 

It  is  believed  by  modern  students  of  alchemy  that 
the  books  of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments  are  a  col- 
lection of  alchemical  and  astrological  writings,  deal- 
ing entirely  with  the  wonderful  operation  of  areial 
elements  (Spirit)  in  the  human  body,  so  fearfully 
and  wonderfully  made.  The  same  authority  is  given 
for  the  statements,  "Know  ye  not  that  your  bodies 
are  the  temple  of  the  living  God"  and  "Come  unto 
Me  all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden  and  I  will 
give  ye  rest."  According  to  the  method  of  reading 
the  numerical  value  of  letters  by  the  Kabala,  M  and 
E  figure  B,  when  united.  Our  B  is  from  the  Hebrew 
Beth,  meaning  a  house  or  temple — the  temple  of  the 
soul — the  body.  Thus  by  coming  into  the  realization 
that  the  body  is  really  the  Father's  House,  temple  of 
God,  the  soul  secures  peace  and  contentment  or  rest. 

The  human  body  is  composed  of  perfect  principles, 
gases,  minerals,  molecules,  or  atoms ;  but  these  build- 
ers of  flesh  and  bone  are  not  always  properly  ad- 
justed. The  planks  or  bricks  used  in  building  houses 
may  be  endlessly  diversified  in  arrangement,  and  yet 
be  perfect  material. 

Solomon's  temple  is  an  allegory  of  man's  temple — 
the  human  organism.  This  house  is  built  (always 
being  built)  "without  sound  of  saw  or  hammer." 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

The  real  Ego  manifests  in  a  house,  beth,  church, 
or  temple — i.  e.,  Soul-of-Man's  Temple. 

The  solar  (soular)  plexus  is  the  great  central  Sun 
or  dynamo  on  which  the  Subconscious  Mind  (another 
name  for  God)  operates  and  causes  the  concept  of 
individual  consciousness.  The  brain  of  man  is  the 
Son  of  God,  the  mediator  (medium)  between  the 
central  dynamo  and  the  Cosmic  Ocean  of  Space. 
Thus  digestion  or  combustion  of  food,  circulation  of 
blood,  inbreathing  the  breath  of  life  (aerial  ele- 
ments) ,  is  carried  on  by  the  co-operation  of  the  Holy 
Trinity;  God,  the  solar  plexus;  the  Son,  the  brain; 
and  the  Holy  (whole)  Spirit,  or  air. 

No  wonder  that  the  seers  and  alchemists  of  old 
declared  that  "Your  bodies  are  the  temple  of  the 
living  God"  and  "The  kingdom  of  Heaven  is  within 
you."  But  man,  blinded  by  selfishness,  searches  here 
and  there,  scours  the  heavens  with  his  telescope,  digs 
deep  into  earth,  and  dives  into  ocean's  depths,  in  a 
vain  search  for  the  Elixir  of  Life  that  may  be  found 
between  the  soles  of  his  feet  and  the  crown  of  his 
head.  Really  our  human  body  is  a  miracle  of  mech- 
anism. No  work  of  man  can  compare  with  it  in 
accuracy  of  its  process  and  the  simplicity  of  its  laws. 

At  maturity,  the  human  skeleton  contains  about 
165  bones,  so  delicately  and  perfectly  adjusted  that 
science  has  despaired  of  ever  imitating  it.  The  mus- 
cles are  about  500  in  number;  length  of  alimentary 
canal,  32  feet;  amount  of  blood  in  average  adult,  30 
pounds,  or  one-fifth  the  weight  of  the  body;  the  heart 
is  six  inches  in  length  and  four  inches  in  diameter, 
and  beats  seventy  times  per  minute,  4200  times  per 
hour,  100,800  per  day,  36,720,000  per  year.  At 
each  beat,  two  and  one-half  ounces  of  blood  are 
thrown  out  of  it,  175  ounces  per  minute,  656  pounds 
per  hour,  or  about  eight  tons  per  day. 

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Wonders  and  Possibilities  of  the  Human  Body 

All  the  blood  in  the  body  passes  through  the  heart 
every  three  minutes;  and  during  seventy  years  it 
lifts  270,000,000  tons  of  blood. 

The  lungs  contain  about  one  gallon  of  air  at  their 
usual  degree  of  inflation.  We  breathe,  on  an  aver- 
age, 1200  breaths  per  hour;  inhale  600  gallons  of 
air,  or  24,000  gallons  daily. 

The  aggregate  surface  of  air-cells  of  the  lungs  ex- 
ceed 20,000  square  inches,  an  area  nearly  equal  to 
that  of  a  room  twelve  feet  square.  The  average 
weight  of  the  brain  of  an  adult  is  three  pounds,  eight 
ounces;  the  average  female  brain,  two  pounds,  four 
ounces.  The  convolutions  of  a  woman's  brain  cells 
and  tissues  are  finer  and  more  delicate  in  fibre  and 
mechanism,  which  evidently  accounts  for  the  intuition 
of  women.  It  would  appear  that  the  difference  in  the 
convolutions  and  fineness  of  tissue  in  brain  matter  is 
responsible  for  the  degrees  of  consciousness  called 
reason  and  intuition. 

The  nerves  are  all  connected  with  the  brain  di- 
rectly, or  by  the  spinal  marrow,  but  nerves  receive 
their  sustenance  from  the  blood,  and  their  motive 
power  from  the  solar  plexus  dynamo.  The  nerves, 
together  with  the  branches  and  minute  ramifications, 
probably  exceed  ten  millions  in  numbers. 

The  skin  is  composed  of  three  layers,  and  varies 
from  one-eighth  to  one-quarter  of  an  inch  in  thick- 
ness. The  average  area  of  skin  is  estimated  to  be 
about  2000  square  inches.  The  atmospheric  pres- 
sure, being  fourteen  pounds  to  the  square  inch,  a  per- 
son of  medium  size  is  subject  to  a  pressure  of  40,000 
pounds.  Each  square  inch  of  skin  contains  3500 
sweat  tubes,  or  perspiratory  pores  (each  of  which 
may  be  likened  to  a  little  drain  tile)  one-fourth  of  an 
inch  in  length,  making  an  aggregate  length  of  the 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

entire  surface  of  the  body  201,166  feet,  or  a  tube  for 
draining  the  body  nearly  forty  miles  in  length. 

Our  body  takes  in  an  average  of  five  and  a  half 
pounds  of  food  and  drink  each  day,  which  amounts 
to  one  ton  of  solid  and  liquid  nourishment  annually, 
so  that  in  seventy  years  a  man  eats  and  drinks  1000 
times  his  own  weight. 

There  is  not  known  in  all  the  realms  of  architec- 
ture or  mechanics  one  little  device  which  is  not  found 
in  the  human  organism.  The  pulley,  the  lever,  the 
inclined  plane,  the  hinge,  the  "universal  joint,"  tubes 
and  trap-doors ;  the  scissors,  grind-stone,  whip,  arch, 
girders,  filters,  valves,  bellows,  pump,  camera,  and 
Aeolian  harp;  and  irrigation  plant,  telegraph  and 
telephone  systems — all  these  and  a  hundred  other 
devices  which  man  thinks  he  has  invented,  but  which 
have  only  been  telegraphed  to  the  brain  from  the 
Solar  Plexus  (cosmic  centre)  and  crudely  copied  or 
manifested  on  the  objective  canvas. 

No  arch  ever  made  by  man  is  as  perfect  as  the  arch 
formed  by  the  upper  ends  of  the  two  legs  and  the 
pelvis  to  support  the  weight  of  the  trunk.  No  palace 
or  cathedral  ever  built  has  been  provided  with  such 
a  perfect  system  of  arches  and  girders. 

No  waterway  on  earth  is  so  complete,  so  commo- 
dious, or  so  populous  as  that  wonderful  river  of  life, 
the  "Stream  of  Blood."  The  violin,  the  trumpet, 
the  harp,  the  grand  organ,  and  all  the  other  musical 
instruments,  are  mere  counterfeits  of  the  human 
voice. 

Man  has  tried  in  vain  to  duplicate  the  hinges  of 
knee,  elbow,  fingers  and  toes,  although  they  are  a 
part  of  his  own  body. 

Another  marvel  of  the  human  body  is  the  self- 
regulation  process  by  which  nature  keeps  the  temper- 
ature in  health  at  98  degrees.  Whether  in  India, 

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Wonders  and  Possibilities  of  the  Human  Body 

with  the  temperature  at  130  degrees,  or  in  the  arctic 
regions,  where  the  records  show  120  degrees  below 
the  freezing  point,  the  temperature  of  the  body  re- 
mains the  same,  practically  steady  at  98  degrees, 
despite  the  extreme  to  which  it  is  subjected. 

It  was  said  that  "all  roads  lead  to  Rome."  Mod- 
ern science  has  discovered  that  all  roads  of  real 
knowledge  lead  to  the  human  body.  The  human 
body  is  an  epitome  of  the  universe;  and  when  man 
turns  the  mighty  searchings  of  reason  and  investiga- 
tion within  that  he  has  so  long  used  without — the 
New  Heaven  and  Earth  will  appear. 

While  it  is  true  that  flesh  is  made  by  a  precipita- 
tion of  blood,  it  is  not  true  that  blood  is  made  from 
food.  The  inorganic  or  cell-salts  contained  in  food 
are  set  free  by  the  process  of  combustion  or  diges- 
tion, and  carried  into  the  circulation  through  the  deli- 
cate absorbent  tubes  of  the  mucous  membrance  of 
stomach  and  intestines.  Air,  or  Spirit,  breathed  into 
the  lungs,  enters  the  arteries  (air  carriers)  and  chem- 
ically unites  with  the  mineral  base,  and  by  a  wonder- 
ful transformation  creates  flesh,  bone,  hair,  nails,  and 
all  the  fluids  of  the  body. 

On  the  rock  (Peter  or  Petra,  meaning  stone)  of 
the  mineral  salts  is  the  human  structure  built,  and  the 
grave,  stomach,  or  hell  shall  not  prevail  against  it. 
The  minerals  in  the  body  do  not  disintegrate  or  rot 
in  the  grave. 

The  fats,  albumen,  fibrine,  etc.,  that  compose  the 
organic  part  of  food,  are  burned  up  in  the  process  of 
digestion  and  transposed  into  energy  or  force  to  run 
the  human  battery.  Blood  is  made  from  air ;  thus  all 
nations  that  dwell  on  earth  are  of  one  blood,  for  all 
breathe  one  air.  The  best  food  is  the  food  that  burns 
up  quickest  and  easiest;  that  is,  with  the  least  friction 
in  ths  human  furnace. 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

The  sexual  functions  of  man  and  woman ;  the  holy 
operation  of  creative  energy  manifested  in  male  and 
female ;  the  formation  of  life  germs  in  ovum  and  sex 
fluids;  the  Divine  Procedure  of  the  "word  made 
flesh"  and  the  mysteries  of  conception  and  birth  are 
the  despair  of  science. 

"Know  ye  not  that  your  bodies  are  the  temple  of 
the  living  God?"  for  "God  breathed  into  man  the 
breath  of  life." 

In  the  words  of  Epictitus,  "Unhappy  man,  thou 
bearest  a  god  about  with  thee,  and  knowest  it  not." 

Walt  Whitman  sings : 

"I  loaf  and  invite  my  soul;  I  lean  and  loaf  at  my 
ease,  observing  a  spear  of  summer  grass.  Clear  and 
sweet  is  my  soul,  and  clear  and  sweet  is  all  that  is 
not  my  soul." 

"Welcome  every  organ  and  attribute  of  me,  and  of 
any  man  hearty  and  clean,  not  an  inch,  not  a  particle 
of  an  inch,  is  vile,  and  none  shall  be  less  familiar  than 
the  rest." 

"Divine  am  I,  inside  and  out,  and  I  make  holy 
whatever  I  touch  or  am  touched  from." 

"I  say  no  man  has  ever  yet  been  half  devout 
enough;  none  has  ever  yet  adored  or  worshipped  half 
enough ;  none  has  begun  to  think  how  divine  he  him- 
self is,  and  how  certain  the  future  is." 

The  vagus  nerve,  so  named  because  of  its  wander- 
ing (vagrant)  branches,  is  the  greatest  marvel  of  the 
human  organism.  Grief  depresses  the  circulation, 
through  the  vagus,  a  condition  of  malnutrition  fol- 
lows, and  tuberculosis,  often  of  the  hasty  type,  fol- 
lows. 

The  roots  of  the  vagus  nerve  are  in  the  medulla 
oblongata,  at  the  base  of  the  small  brain  or  cerebel- 
lum, and  explains  why  death  follows  the  severing  of 

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the  medulla.  It  controls  the  heart  action,  and  if  a 
drug  such  as  aconite  be  administered,  even  in  small 
doses,  its  effect  upon  this  nerve  is  shown  in  slowing 
the  action  of  the  heart  and  decreasing  the  blood  pres- 
sure. In  larger  doses  it  paralyzes  the  ends  of  the 
vagus  in  the  heart,  so  that  the  pulse  becomes  sud- 
denly very  rapid  and  at  the  same  time  irregular. 
Branches  of  the  vagus  nerve  reach  the  heart,  lungs, 
stomach,  liver  and  kidneys. 

Worry  brings  on  kidney  disease,  but  it  is  the  vagus 
nerve,  and  especially  that  branch  running  to  the  kid- 
neys which  under  undue  excitement  or  worry,  or 
strain,  brings  about  the  paralysis  of  the  kidneys  in 
the  performance  of  their  functions. 

When  we  say  that  a  man's  heart  sinks  within  him 
for  fear  or  apprehension,  it  is  shown  by  the  effect  of 
this  nerve  upon  the  heart  action.  If  his  heart  beats 
high  with  hopes,  or  he  sighs  for  relief,  it  is  the  vagus 
nerve  that  has  conducted  the  mental  state  to  the  heart 
and  accelerated  its  action  or  caused  that  spasmodic 
action  of  the  lungs  which  we  call  a  sigh. 

The  nerves  of  the  human  body  constitute  the  "Tree 
of  Life,"  with  its  leaves  of  healing.  The  flowing 
waters  of  the  Rivers  of  Life  are  the  veins  and  arte- 
ries through  which  sweep  the  red,  magnetic  currents 
of  Love — of  Spirit  made  visible. 

Acids  and  alkalis  acting, 

Proceeding  and  acting  again, 
Operating,  transmuting,  fomenting, 

In  throes  and  spasms  of  pain — 
Uniting,  reacting,  atoning, 

Like  souls  passing  under  the  rod — 
Some  people  call  it  Chemistry, 

Others  call  it  GOD. 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

Behold  the  divine  telegraph  system,  the  million 
nerve  wires  running  throughout  the  wondrous  tem- 
ple, the  temple  not  made  with  hands,  the  temple 
made  uwithout  sound  of  saw  or  hammer."  View  the 
Central  Sun  of  the  human  system — the  Solar  Plexus 
— vibrating  life  abundantly. 

Around  this  dynamo  of  God,  you  may  see  the 
Beasts  that  worship  before  the  Throne  day  and  night 
saying,  "Holy,  holy,  art  Thou,  Lord  God  Almighty." 
The  Beasts  are  the  twelve  plexuses  of  nerve  centers, 
telegraph  stations,  like  unto  the  twelve  zodiacal  signs 
that  join  hands  in  a  fraternal  circle  across  the  gulf  of 
space. 

Aviation,  liquified  air,  deep  breathing  for  physical 
development  and  the  healing  of  divers  diseases  rule 
the  day.  In  every  brain  there  are  dormant  cells, 
waiting  for  the  "coming"  of  the  bridegroom,  the 
vibration  of  the  air  age  (the  Christ)  that  will  resur- 
rect them. 

Everywhere  we  have  evidence  of  the  awakening  of 
dormant  brain  cells.  Much,  if  not  all,  of  spiritual 
phenomena,  multiple  personality,  mental  telepathy, 
and  kindred  manifestations,  are  explainable  upon  the 
hypothesis  of  the  possibility  of  awakening  and  bring- 
ing into  use  of  dormant  brain  cells. 

The  eye  is  hardly  less  wonderful,  being  a  perfect 
photographer's  camera.  The  retina  is  the  dry  plate 
on  which  are  focused  all  objects  by  means  of  the  crys- 
talline lens.  The  cavity  behind  this  lens  is  the  shut- 
ter. The  eyelid  is  the  drop  shuttle.  The  draping  of 
the  optical  dark  room  is  the  only  black  membrane  in 
the  entire  body.  This  miniature  camera  is  self-focus- 
ing, self-loading  and  self-developing,  and  takes  mil- 
lions of  pictures  every  day  in  colors  and  enlarged  to 
life  size. 

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Wonders  and  Possibilities  of  the  Human  Body 

Charts  have  been  prepared — marvelous  charts — 
which  go  to  show  that  the  eye  has  729  distinct  expres- 
sions conveying  us  many  distinct  shades  of  meaning. 

The  power  of  color  perception  is  overwhelming. 
To  perceive  red  the  retina  of  the  eye  must  receive 
395,000  vibrations  in  a  second;  for  violet  it  must 
respond  to  790,000,000.  In  our  waking  moments 
our  eyes  are  bombarded  every  minute  by  at  least 
600,000,000  vibrations. 

The  ear  is  a  colossal  mystery,  and  the  phenomenon 
of  sound  is  a  secret  only  recorded  in  the  Holy  of 
Holies  of  the  Infinite  Mind.  And  what  is  mind? 
We  know  absolutely  nothing  about  it.  Some  believe 
that  mind  is  the  product  of  the  chemical  operation  of 
matter,  viz. :  the  atoms  or  materials  that  compose 
the  human  body.  These  persons  contend  that  all 
electrons  are  particles  of  pure  Intelligence  and  know 
what  to  do.  Others  hold  to  the  theory  that  universal 
Mind  (whatever  it  may  be)  forms  a  body  from  some 
material,  they  know  not  what,  and  then  plays  upon 
it  or  operates  through  it. 

Visions  of  beauty  and  splendor, 

Forms  of  a  long-lost  race, 
Sounds  and  faces  and  voices 

From  the  fourth  dimension  of  space ; 
And  on  through  the  universe  boundless, 

Our  thoughts  go,  lightning-shod ; 
Some  call  it  Imagination, 

And  others  call  it  God ! 

We  wonder  and  adore  in  the  presence  of  that  puls- 
ing orb,  the  heart.  Tons  of  the  water  of  life  made 
red  by  the  Chemistry  of  Love  sweep  through  this 
central  throne  every  day,  and  flow  on  to  enrich  the 
Edenic  Garden  until  its  waste  places  shall  bloom  and 
blossom  as  the  rose. 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

Take  my  hand  and  go  with  me  to  the  home  of  the 
Soul — that  wonderful  brain.  Can  you  count  the 
whirling,  electric,  vibrating  cells  ?  No,  not  until  you 
can  count  the  sand  grain  on  the  ocean's  shore.  These 
rainbow-hued  cells  are  the  keys  that  the  fingers  of  the 
soul  strike  to  play  its  part  in  the  Symphony  of  the 
Spheres. 

At  last  we  have  seen  the  "Travail  of  the  Soul  and 
are  satisfied."  No  more  temples  of  the  Magi  now, 
but  instead  the  Temple  of  the  Ego,  the  glorious 
human  Beth.  At  least  we  have  found  the  true  church 
of  God,  the  human  body.  In  this  body,  or  church, 
spirit  operates  like  some  wizard  chemist  or  electri- 
cian. No  more  searching  through  India's  jungles  or 
scaling  the  Himalayan  heights  in  search  for  a  mas- 
ter— a  mahatma — or  ancient  priest  dwelling  in  some 
mysterious  cave  where  occult  rites  and  ceremonies 
are  supposed  to  reveal  the  wisdom  of  the  past.  But 
instead,  you  have  found  the  Kingdom  of  the  Real 
within  the  Temple  that  needs  no  outer  Sun  by  day  nor 
Moon  nor  Stars  by  night  to  lighten  it.  And  then  the 
enraptured  Soul  becomes  conscious  that  the  stone  has 
been  rolled  away  from  the  door  of  material  concept 
where  it  has  slept,  and  it  now  hears  the  voice  of  the 
Father  within  saying,  "Let  there  be  light!"  and  feels 
the  freedom  that  comes  with  knowing  that  Being  is 
one. 

And  now,  man,  the  Ego,  also  realizes  the  meaning 
of  the  uDay  of  Judgment."  It  realizes  that  Judg- 
ment means  understanding,  hence  the  ability  to  judge. 
Man  then  judges  correctly,  for  he  sees  the  Wisdom 
of  Infinite  Life  in  all  men,  in  all  things,  all  events, 
and  all  environments.  Thus  does  the  new  birth  take 
place,  and  the  Kingdom  of  Harmony  reigns  now. 

Man  must  realize,  however,  that  he  is  the  creator 
or  builder  of  his  own  body,  and  that  he  is  responsible 

[18] 


Wonders  and  Possibilities  of  the  Human  Body 

for  every  moment  of  its  building,  and  every  hour  of 
its  care.  He  alone  can  select  and  put  together  the 
materials  provided  by  the  universe  for  its  construc- 
tion. Man  has  been  able  to  scale  the  heavens,  to 
measure  the  distances  between  the  stars  and  plane- 
tary bodies,  and  to  analyze  the  component  parts  of 
suns  and  worlds,  yet  he  cannot  eat  without  making 
himself  ill ;  he  can  foretell  eclipses  and  tides  for  years 
in  advance,  but  cannot  look  far  enough  ahead  in  his 
own  affairs  to  say  when  he  may  be  brought  down  with 
la  grippe,  or  to  calculate  accurately  the  end  of  any 
bodily  ill  that  may  afflict  him.  When  he  finds  out 
what  he  really  is,  and  how  much  he  has  always  had 
to  do  in  the  making  of  himself  what  he  is,  he  will 
be  ready  to  grasp  some  idea  of  the  wonderful  possi- 
bilities of  every  human  soul  and  body,  and  will  know 
how  completely  and  entirely  is  every  man  his  own 
savior.  Just  so  long  as  he  denies  his  own  powers, 
and  looks  outside  of  himself  for  salvation  from  pres- 
ent or  future  ills,  he  is  indeed  a  lost  creature.  If  the 
race  is  to  be  redeemed,  it  must  come  as  the  result  of 
thought  followed  by  action.  If  the  race  is  to  think 
differently  than  at  present,  it  must  have  new  bodies 
with  new  brains.  Man  must  be  born  again. 

Modern  physiologists  know  that  our  bodies  are 
completely  made  over  every  year,  by  the  throwing 
off  of  worn-out  cells  and  the  formation  of  new  ones, 
that  is  going  on  every  minute.  Nature  will  take  care 
of  the  making-over  process,  but  we  are  responsible 
for  the  plan  of  reconstruction.  Man  must  learn  to 
run  the  machinery  of  his  body  with  the  same  mathe- 
matical accuracy  as  he  now  displays  in  control  of  an 
engine  or  automobile,  before  he  can  lay  claim  to  his 
divine  heritage  and  proclaim  himself  master  of  his 
own. 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

The  law  of  life  is  not  a  separate  agent  working 
independently  of  mankind  and  separate  from  indi- 
vidual life.  Man  himself  is  a  phase  of  the  great  law 
in  operation.  When  he  once  fully  awakens  to  the 
universal  co-operation  of  the  attributes  and  thoughts 
through  which  the  great  dynamis  operates  or  pro- 
ceeds, he — the  Ego — one  of  the  expressions  of  infin- 
ity, will  be  enabled  to  free  himself  from  the  seeming 
environments  of  matter,  and  thus  realizing  his 
power,  will  assert  his  dominion  over  all  he  has  been 
an  agent  in  creating.  And  he  has  indeed  assisted  in 
creating — manifesting — all  that  is.  Being  a  thought, 
an  outbreathing  of  universal  spirit,  he  is  co-eternal 
with  it. 

In  material  concept,  we  do  not  begin  to  realize  the 
extent  of  our  wisdom.  When  we  awaken  to  spirit, 
consciousness — knowledge  that  we  are  egos  that  have 
bodies  or  temples,  and  not  bodies  that  have  souls, 
or  spirits,  we  see  the  object  or  reason  of  all  symbols 
or  manifestation,  and  begin  to  realize  our  own  power 
•over  all  created  things. 

And  in  this  Aquarian  age,  great  changes  in  nature's 
laws  will  be  speedily  brought  to  pass,  and  great 
changes  in  the  affairs  of  humanity  will  result.  The 
laws  of  vibration  will  be  mastered,  and  through  their 
operation  material  manifestations  will  be  shaped  and 
moulded  to  man's  will.  It  is  only  a  matter  of  time 
when  all  the  necessities  of  life  will  be  produced 
directly  from  the  elements  of  the  air. 

It  is  well  known  by  chemists  that  all  manner  of 
fruits,  grains  and  vegetables  are  produced  directly 
from  the  elements  in  air,  and  not  from  soil.  The 
earth,  of  course,  serves  as  a  negative  pole  and 
furnishes  the  mineral  salts  of  lime,  magnesium,  iron, 
potassium,  sodium  and  silica,  which  act  as  carriers 
of  water,  oil,  fibrin,  sugar,etc.,  and  thus  build  up  the 

[20] 


Wonders  and  Possibilities  of  the  Human  Body 

plant;  but  oil,  sugar,  albumin,  etc.,  are  formed  by  a 
precipitation  or  condensation  of  principles  in  air,  and 
not  from  soil.  This  is  a  fact  abundantly  proved. 
Mr.  Berthelot,  a  scientist  of  France,  Tesla,  the  Aus- 
trian wizard,  and  our  own  Edison  have  long  held 
that  food  can  be  produced  by  a  synthetic  process 
from  its  elements  artificially. 

Some  six  or  seven  extracts,  as  well  as  coloring 
material,  are  now  being  manufactured  in  this  man- 
ner. Madder  is  made  almost  exclusively  by  this 
process  now. 

Sugar  has  recently  been  made  in  the  laboratory 
from  glycerin,  which  Professor  Berthelot  first  made 
direct  from  synthetic  alcohol.  Commerce  has  now 
taken  up  the  question;  and  an  invention  has  been 
patented  by  which  sugar  is  to  be  made  upon  a  com- 
mercial scale,  from  two  gases,  at  something  like  1 
cent  per  pound.  M.  Berthelot  declares  he  has  not 
the  slightest  doubt  that  sugar  will  eventually  be  man- 
ufactured on  a  large  scale  synthetically,  and  that  the 
culture  of  sugar  cane  and  beet  root  will  be  aband- 
oned, because  they  have  ceased  to  pay. 

The  chemical  advantages  promised  by  M.  Berthe- 
lot to  future  generations  are  marvelous.  He  cites 
the  case  of  alzarin,  a  compound  whose  synthetic  man- 
ufacture by  chemists  has  destroyed  a  great  agricul- 
tural industry.  It  is  the  essential  commercial  prin- 
ciple of  the  madder  root,  which  was  once  used  in  dye- 
ing. The  chemists  have  now  succeeded  in  making 
pure  indigo  direct  from  its  elements,  and  it  will  soon 
be  a  commercial  product.  Then  the  indigo  fields,  like 
the  madder  fields,  will  be  abandoned,  industrial  lab- 
oratories having  usurped  their  place. 

Biochemists  long  ago  advanced  the  theory  that  ani- 
mal tissue  is  formed  from  the  air  inhaled,  and  not 
from  food.  The  food,  of  course,  serves  its  purpose ; 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

it  acts  as  the  negative  pole,  as  does  the  earth  to  plant 
and  vegetable  life,  and  also  furnishes  the  inorganic 
salts,  the  workers  that  carry  on  the  chemistry  of  life, 
setting  free  magnetism,  heat  and  electric  forces  by 
disintegration  and  fermentation  of  the  organic  por- 
tions of  the  food. 

But  air,  in  passing  through  the  various  avenues 
and  complex  structure  of  the  human  organism, 
changes,  condenses,  solidifies,  until  it  is  finally  depos- 
ited as  flesh  and  bone.  From  this  established  scien- 
tific truth,  it  appears  that,  by  constructing  a  set  of 
tubes,  pumps,  etc.,  resembling  the  circulatory  system, 
as  well  as  the  lung  cells  of  the  human  mechanism, 
which  is  a  chemical  laboratory,  where  the  chemistry 
of  spirit  is  ever  at  work,  changing  the  one  essence  of 
spirit  substance  to  blood,  flesh  and  bone,  air  may  be 
changed  into  an  albuminous  pabulum,  which  may  be 
again  changed  into  the  special  kind  of  food  required 
by  adding  the  proper  flavor,  which  may  also  be  pro- 
duced direct  from  the  air. 

There  does  not  seem  to  be  any  reason  why  this  sub- 
stance, the  basis  of  all  food  or  vegetable  growth,  can- 
not, by  proper  process,  be  made  into  material  for 
clothing.  Wool,  cotton,  flax,  silks,  etc.,  are  all  pro- 
duced from  the  universal  elements  through  the  slow, 
laborious  and  costly  process  of  animal  or  vegetable 
growth.  Why  not  produce  them  direct? 

Those  who  believe  in  a  time  of  peace  on  earth,  a 
millennial  reign,  certainly  do  not  think  that  our  pres- 
ent mode  of  producing  food  will  continue  during  that 
age.  Slaughter  of  animals,  and  fruit,  grain  or  vege- 
table raising  leave  small  time  for  men  and  women  to 
enjoy  a  condition  foretold  by  all  the  seers  and  proph- 
ets. But  under  the  new  way  of  producing  food  and 
clothing,  the  millennium  is  possible. 

And    thus  will    the    problem    of    subsistence    be 

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Wonders  and  Possibilities  of  the  Human  Body 

solved.  No  more  monopoly  of  nature's  bounties. 
An  exchange  of  service  will  be  the  coin  of  the  world 
instead  of  certain  metals  difficult  to  obtain. 

A  realization  of  this  vision,  or  theory,  that  will  for 
awhile  be  called  visionary  by  most  people,  will  mean 
Eden  restored.  The  Earth  will  be  allowed  to  return 
to  its  natural  state.  We  will  cease  to  eat  animals 
birds  and  fishes.  Many  people  have  wondered  why, 
during  the  last  few  years  fruit  pests  have  multiplied 
so  alarmingly,  and  why  cows  are  almost  universally 
diseased  and  so  much  attention  given  to  meat,  milk, 
and  butter  products  by  Boards  of  Health,  etc.  There 
is  surely  a  reason.  The  One  Life,  Supreme  In- 
telligence, or  Divine  Wisdom,  that  holds  the  worlds 
of  space  in  their  appointed  orbits,  surely  knows  all 
about  the  affairs  of  earth.  When  a  new  dispensation 
is  about  to  be  ushered  in,  old  things  begin  to  pass 
away. 

All  labor,  preparing  food  and  clothing,  as  now 
carried  on,  will  cease,  and  the  people,  in  govern- 
mental or  collective  capacity,  will  manufacture  and 
distribute  all  manner  of  food  and  clothing  free.  Ma- 
chinery for  the  production  of  everything  necessary 
for  man's  material  wants  will  be  simple  and  easily 
manipulated.  One-twentieth  of  the  able-bodied  popu- 
lation, working  one  or  two  hours  a  day,  and  shift- 
ing every  week,  or  day,  for  that  matter,  with  others, 
will  produce  an  abundant  supply.  Neither  droughts 
nor  floods  nor  winter's  snow  can  affect  the  supply. 
It  can  be  made  in  Klondyke  or  the  Tropics.  Gar- 
ments may  be  worn  for  a  few  days  and  then  burned, 
and  laundry  work  cease.  Cooking  will  be  reduced  to 
a  minimum.  No  preparing  vegetables,  fruit  or  crack- 
ing nuts;  no  making  butter,  or  preserving  meats. 
Men  will  not  have  to  devote  their  lives  to  the  endless 
grind  of  food  production,  nor  women  to  cooking, 

[23] 


The  Tree  of  Life 

dish-washing,  sewing,  and  laundry-work.  Garments 
of  beautiful  design  and  finest  texture  will  be  made  by 
machines  invented  for  the  purpose,  ready  for  wear. 

A  dream,  you  say?  I  cannot  admit  that  in  the 
fact  of  the  indisputable  evidence  already  produced: 
but  what  if  it  were,  at  present,  but  the  dream  it  may 
appear  to  the  one  who  hears  of  its  methods  of  opera- 
tion for  the  first  time?  Do  dreams  ever  come  true? 
Yea,  verily?  All  concrete  facts  are  materialized 
dreams. 

An  Egyptian  King  dreamed,  and  the  Pyramids  of 
Cheops  mass  and  miracle  his  vision.  The  Pyramids 
are  encyclopedic  of  physical  science  and  astral  lore. 
The  science  of  numbers,  weights,  measures,  geometry 
astronomy,  astrology,  and  all  the  deeper  mysteries 
of  the  human  body  and  soul  are  embodied  in  these 
incomparable  monuments. 

A  dream  of  an  ancient  alchemist  solidified  in  stone, 
and  the  awful  sphinx  sat  down  in  Egypt's  sand  to  gaze 
into  eternity. 

Columbus  dreamed,  and  a  white-sailed  ship  turned 
its  prow  west  and  west.  On  unchartered  seas,  with 
an  eternity  of  water  ahead,  he  remembered  his  dream, 
and  answered  "Sail  on!"  to  the  discouraged  mate, 
until  he  landed  on  the  unknown  shores  of  a  most 
wonderful  new  world. 

Michael  Angelo  dreamed  a  thousand  dreams  and 
sleeping  marble  awoke  and  smiled.  Hudson  and  Ful- 
ton dreamed,  and  steamboats  "run  over  and  under 
the  seas." 

The  Pilgrim  Fathers  dreamed  and  America,  the 
"marvel  of  nations"  banners  the  skies  with  the  stars 
and  stripes.  Marcus  Whitman  and  Lewis  and  Clarke 
dreamed  long  and  hard  and  the  bones  of  oxen  and 
men  and  women  and  babies  made  a  bridge  over  the 

[24] 


Wonders  and  Possibilities  of  the  Human  Body 

desert  sands  and  the  mountain  gorges  to  the  shores 
of  the  Sundown  Sea,  and  now  the  Pullman  cars  come 
safely  over.  Morse  and  Marconi  and  Edison 
dreamed  strange  wild  dreams  and  concentrated  in- 
telligence springs  from  carbon-crucible  and  says  to 
earth's  boundaries,  "Lo;  here  am  I." 

Vibration  of  etheric  substance 

Causing  light  through  regions  of  space, 
A  girdle  of  something  enfolding 

And  binding  together  the  race — 
And  words  without  wires  transmitted, 

Aerial-winged,  spirit-sandalled  and  shod: 
Some  call  it  electricity, 

And  others  call  it  God! 

A  mechanic  dreamed,  and  sprang  upon  his  auto- 
mobile, and  drove  it  till  the  axles  blazed  and  the 
spaces  shriveled  behind  him.  Men  of  high  strung 
airy  brains  dreamed  wondrous  dreams,  and  .now 
the  eagle's  highway  and  the  open  road  to  men  li? 
parallel. 

A  musician  dreamed  a  sweet,  harmonious  dream, 
and  forth  from  a  throat  of  brass  and  discs  of  carbon 
directed  by  a  million  tiny  fingers  of  steel,  came  the 
entrancing  notes  that  had  run  riot  through  the  sing- 
er's brain. 

So  let  us  dream  on,  men  and  women,  of  the  day 
of  rest  that  is  already  dawning  in  the  heavens.  No 
wonder  that  Paul  said:  "Now,  brethren,  are  we  the 
Sons  of  God,  but  it  doth  not  yet  appear  what  we 
shall  be — as  such.  The  morning  light  of  that  glad 
day  now  purples  the  mountains  of  faith  and  hope  with 
its  rays  of  glory. 

And  when  Man  is  once  fully  alive  to  his  own  heri- 
tage, realizing  the  wonders  and  possibilities  of  his 

[25] 


own  body,  and  to  provide  for  its  needs,  he  will  assert 
the  divine  right  within  him  to  be  an  Ego,  a  soul,  in 
command  of  its  own  temple,  and  the  environments  of 
that  temple,  and  will  rejoice  in  the  revealed  truth  of 
his  own  divinity  that  alone  can  make  him  free. 


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PART  TWO 
The  Bridge  of  Life 

"A   noiseless,   patient   spider, 

I  mark'd,  where,  on   a   little  promontory,   it  stood,   isolated; 

Mark'd  how,  to  explore  the  vacant,  vast  surrounding, 

It   launch'd   forth   filament,   filament,    filament,   out  of   itself; 

Ever   unreeling   them — ever   tirelessly   speeding   them. 

"And  you,  O  my  soul,  where  you  stand, 

Surrounded,   surrounded,   in  measureless  oceans  of  space, 

Ceaselessly  musing,   venturing,   throwing — seeking  the   spheres,   to 

connect  them; 
Till  the  bridge  you  will  need,  be  form'd — till  the  ductile 

anchor  hold ; 
Till  the  gossamer  thread  you  fling,  catch  somewhere,  O  my  soul." 

— WALT  WHITMAN 

HE  statement  by  Holy  Writ  that  "man 
is  conceived  in  sin  and  brought  forth  in 
iniquity"  has  a  threefold  meaning,  viz., 
chemical,  physiological,  and  astrological. 
The  translation  from  the  Hebrew  text  as 
given  is  crude  and  misleading.  The  real  meaning  in 
the  original  is,  that  the  human  embryo  remains  nine 
months  in  the  female  laboratory,  thus  falling  short 
three  months  of  completing  a  solar  year,  or  soul  year. 
Twelve  represents  a  complete  circle. 

The  word  sin  comes  from  Schin,  the  21st  letter  of 
the  Hebrew  alphabet,  and  means  to  fall  short  of  com- 
pleteness or  understanding.  In  the  Tarot  symbol,  S, 
or  Sin,  is  represented  by  the  "Blind  Fool,"  one  lack- 
ing in  wisdom.  "Brought  forth  in  iniquity"  is  merely 
a  repetition  of  the  words  "born  in  sin."  Iniquity  and 
inequity,  or  unequal,  mean  the  same.  The  ancient 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

Hebrews  called  Moon,  Sin,  because  it  gave  light  onty 
part  of  the  time. 

To  acquire  wisdom  that  will  enable  the  Ego  in  flesh 
to  build  a  bridge  across  the  three-month  gap,  or  space 
between  the  point  of  conception  and  birth,  is  the  one 
real  problem  that  confronts  Soul  on  the  material 
plane  of  expression.  The  alchemists,  seers,  and  as- 
trolbgians  of  all  ages  have  wrestled  with  this  problem 
in  their  ceaseless  endeavors  to  unravel  the  great  mys- 
tery of  man's  dominion  over  flesh.  Whether  it  be  the 
chemist  seeking  new  compounds,  the  physiologist 
searching  and  testing  the  fluids  of  the  fearfully  and 
wonderfully  made  body  of  man,  or  the  alchemist 
probing  for  the  Elixir  of  Life — the  Ichor  of  the  Gods 
— or  the  astrologian  pulling  and  adjusting  the  etheric 
wires  that  criss-cross  the  spaces  in  an  earnest  desire 
to  make  good  and  sane  the  statement  "The  wise  man 
rules  his  stars," — all,  all  are  seeking  to  span  the  aw- 
ful space  that  yawns  between  the  neophyte  and  the 
Promised  Land  of  immortality  in  the  body,  where 
"in  my  flesh  I  shall  see  God,"  and  when  and  where 
he  can  truly  say  with  the  regenerated  Job,  "I  have 
heard  of  thee  by  the  hearing  of  the  ear,  but  now  mine 
eye  seeth  thee."  Man  must  work  out  his  own  salva- 
tion. 

The  bridge  to  be  built  across  the  three-months 
space  must  have  a  mineral  base  or  rock  foundation. 
uThou  are  Peter  (petra,  stone,  or  mineral),  on  thee 
will  I  build  my  church,"  etc.  Church  is  from  the  sec- 
ond Hebrew  letter,  Beth,  a  house,  temple,  or  church. 
The  human  body  is  a  house,  temple,  or  church  for 
Soul.  "Know  ye  not  that  your  bodies  are  the  tem- 
ple (church)'of  God?" 

There  are  twelve  inorganic  mineral  cell-salts  in  the 
human  body,  and  these  minerals  (stones  in  the  tem- 
ple) correspond  in  vibration  to  the  twelve  signs  of 

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the  Zodiac.  During  the  nine  months  of  gestation  the 
embryo  receives  and  appropriates  the  creative  ener- 
gies of  nine  of  these  salts,  leaving  three  to  be  supplied 
after  the  parting  of  the  umbilical  cord.  Take  for  ex- 
ample a  native  born  February  22nd,  with  the  Sun's 
entry  into  Pisces:  The  embryo  having  begun  its  jour- 
ney at  the  gate  of  Gemini  and  negotiated  the  nine 
gestatory  signs,  his  blood  vibration  at  birth  is  thus 
deficient  in  the  qualities  of  Pisces,  Aries  and  Taurus, 
as  also  in  the  chemical  dynamics  of  phosphate  of  iron, 
phosphate  of  potassium,  and  sulphate  of  sodium — 
the  mineral  bases  respectively  of  the  signs  of  this  un- 
completed quadrant.  In  so  far  as  his  circulatory  sys- 
tem may  receive  these  needed  builders,  health  will 
be  balanced  and  life  prolonged. 

The  chemical  union  of  these  cell-salts  with  organic 
matter,  such  as  oil,  fibrin,  albumen,  etc.,  forms  the 
various  tissues  of  the  body,  and  administers  to  the 
physiological  needs  as  represented  by  the  Bridge,  that 
the  multiple  cells  may  respond  more  harmoniously 
and  completely  to  the  magic  touch  of  the# Divine  en- 
ergy, just  as  the  tones  of  a  musical  instrument  are 
made  the  more  melodious  through  a  properly  skilled 
manipulation.  And  as  bridge-building  in  a  mechani- 
cal sense  depends  upon  the  plans  and  specifications 
of  a  competent  civil  engineer,  so  does  the  Bridge  of 
Life  depend  upon  the  astrologian  to  chart  and  com- 
pass the  way. 

Our  diagram  indicates  at  a  glance  the  chemical 
formulae  that  appertain  respectively  to  the  zodiacal 
divisions,  but  to  give  a  clearer  conception  as  regards 
their  specific  qualities  and  physiological  action  in  re- 
lation to  the  various  signs,  reference  may  be  had  to 
the  following  compend : 

ARIES  :  From  the  teachings  of  the  Chemistry  of 

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Life  we  find  that  the  basis  of  brain  or  nerve  fluid  is  a 
certain  mineral  salt  known  as  potassium  phosphate, 
or  Kali  Phos. 

The  Phosphate  of  Potash. 

Synonyms :  Potassium  Phosphate,  Kali  Phosphori- 
cum,  Potassii  Phosphas. 

Formula :  K2HPO4. 

It  may  be  prepared  by  mixing  aqueous  phosphoric 
acid  with  a  sufficient  quantity  of  potash,  hydrate  or 
carbonate,  until  the  reaction  is  slightly  alkaline  and 
evaporating.  Triturate  to  3d  or  6th  X. 

This  salt  is  the  great  builder  of  the  positive  brain 
cells.  Kali  phos.  unijtes  with  albumen  and  by  some 
subtle  alchemy  transmutes  it  and  forms  gray  brain 
matter. 

When  the  chemical  possibilities  of  this  brain  build- 
er are  fully  understood  insane  asylums  will  go  out  of 
fashion. 

Man  has  been  deficient  in  understanding  because 
his  brain  receiver  did  not  vibrate  to  certain  subtle  in- 
fluences ;  the  dynamic  cells  in  the  gray  matter  of  nerve 
were  not  finely  attuned  and  did  not  respond — hence 
sin,  or  falling  short  of  understanding. 

TAURUS:     Sulphate  of  Soda. 

Synonyms:  Natrum  Sulphate,  Sodium  Sulphuri- 
cum,  Sodae  or  Sodii  Sulphas,  Glauber's  Salts. 

Formula  Na2(SO4—  10H2O). 

May  be  obtained  by  the  action  of  Sulphuric  acid 
on  sodium  chloride  (common  salt). 

This  cell-salt  is  found  in  the  intercellular  fluids, 
liver  and  pancreas.  Its  principal  work  is  to  regulate 
the  supply  of  water  in  the  human  organism. 

The  blood  becomes  overcharged  with  water,  either 
from  the  oxidation  of  organic  matter  or  from  inhal- 

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ing  air  that  contains  more  aqueous  vapor  (water) 
than  is  required  to  produce  normal  blood.  This  con- 
dition of  air  is  liable  to  prevail  whenever  the  tem- 
perature is  above  70  degrees. 

One  molecule  of  nat.  sulph.  has  the  power  (chem- 
ical intelligence)  to  take  up  and  carry  away  two  mole- 
cules, or  twice  its  bulk  of  water.  The  blood  does  not 
become  overcharged  with  water  from  water  taken 
into  the  stomach,  but  from  the  water  lifted  by  expan- 
sion caused  by  heat  above  70  degrees  and  held  in  the 
air  and  thus  breathed  into  the  arteries  through  the 
lungs.  By  the  above  we  see  that  there  is  more  work 
for  this  salt  in  hot  weather  than  during  cold  weather. 
So-called  malaria,  Latin  for  bad  air,  is  due  to  a  lack 
of  this  tissue  salt.  Water  lifted  from  swamps  or  clear 
streams  or  lakes  by  the  action  of  the  sun's  heat  is  the 
same ;  for  heat  does  not  evaporate  and  lift  poisonous 
disintegrating  organic  matter  from  a  swamp  or 
marsh,  but  the  water  only. 

GEMINI  :     The  Chloride  of  Potash,  or  Potassium. 

Synonyms:  Potassium  chloride,  Kali  Muriaticum, 
Kali  Chloratum,  Kali  Chloridum,  Potassi  Chloridum. 

Formula:  K  Cl. 

This  salt  must  not  be  confused  with  the  chlorate  of 
potash,  a  poison,  chemical  formula  K  Clo3. 

Chloride  of  potash  may  be  obtained  by  neutraliz- 
ing pure  aqueous  hydrochloric  acid  with  pure  potas- 
sium carbonate  or  hydrate. 

The  cell-salt  kali  muriaticum  (Potassium  chlo- 
ride) is  the  mineral  worker  of  blood  that  forms  fib- 
rin and  properly  diffuses  it  through  the  tissues  of  the 
body. 

Kali  mur  molecules  are  principal  agents  used  in 
the  chemistry  of  life  to  build  fibrin  into  the  human 
organism.  The  skin  that  covers  the  face  contains 

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the  lines  and  angles  that  give  expression  and  thus  dif- 
ferentiate one  person  from  another. 

In  venous  blood  fibrin  amounts  to  three  in  one 
thousand  parts;  when  the  molecules  of  Kali  mur  fall 
below  the  standard  in  the  blood  fibrin  thickens,  caus- 
ing what  is  known  as  pleurisy,  pneumonia,  catarrh, 
diphtheria,  etc.  When  the  circulation  fails  to  throw 
out  the  thickened  fibrin  via  the  glands  or  mucous 
membrane,  it  may  stop  the  action  of  the  heart.  Em- 
bolus  is  a  Latin  word  meaning  little  lump,  or  balls ; 
therefore  to  die  of  embolus,  or  "heart  failure"  gen- 
erally means  that  the  heart's  action  was  stopped  by 
little  lumps  of  fibrin  clogging  the  auricles  and  ven- 
tricles of  the  heart. 

When  the  blood  contains  the  proper  amount  of 
kali  mur,  fibrin  is  functional  and  the  symptoms  re- 
ferred to  above  do  not  manifest. 

CANCER  :     Fluoride  of  Lime. 

Synonyms :  Calcaria  Flurica,  Calcium  Fluoride. 

Chemical  Formula :  CaF2. 

This  salt  is  formed  by  the  union  of  lime  and  fluo- 
rine. 

The  inorganic  salts  are  the  workers,  controlled 
and  directed  by  infinite  intelligence,  that  performs  the 
ceaseless  miracle  of  creation  or  formation. 

Biologists  and  physiologists  have  searched  long 
and  patiently  for  a  solution  to  the  mystery  of  the  dif- 
ferentiation of  material  forms. 

No  ordinary  test  can  detect  any  difference  in  the 
ovum  of  fish,  reptile,  bird,  beast  or  man.  Chemical 
analysis  reveals  the  same  mineral  salts,  carbon,  oil, 
fibrine,  albumen,  sugar,  etc.,  in  the  life  cell,  or  ovum 
in  the  blood,  tissue,  hair,  or  bone  of  the  multiple  and 
varied  expression  of  life  in  material  forms. 

The  chemistry  of  life  answers  the  "Riddle  of  the 

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Sphinx,"  and  writes  above  the  temple  door  of  inves- 
tigation: "Let  there  be  light."  There  is  no  such 
thing  as  dead  or  inert.  All  is  life.  A  crystal  is  an 
aggregation  of  living  organism.  The  base  of  all 
material  manifestation  is  mineral.  "Out  of  the  dust 
(ashes  or  mineral)  of  earth  physical  man  is  made." 

The  twelve  mineral  salts  of  lime,  iron,  potash,  so- 
dium, silica  and  magnesium  are  the  foundation  stones 
of  every  visible  form  of  animal  or  vegetable.  No 
two  forms  of  the  different  species  of  animals  have 
the  same  combination  of  this  "rock  foundation,"  but 
all  have  some  of  the  same  minerals. 

It  is  quite  as  important  for  a  student  of  Biochem- 
istry to  understand  the  process  by  which  certain  cell- 
salts  operate  to  supply  a  deficiency  as  it  is  to  know 
what  a  particular  symptom  calls  for. 

Elastic  fibre,  the  chief  organic  substance  in  rubber, 
is  formed  by  a  chemical  union  of  the  fluoride  of  lime 
with  albumen,  oil,  etc.  Therefore,  we  find  this  salt 
dominant  in  the  elastic  fibre  of  the  body,  in  the 
enamel  of  teeth  and  connective  tissue. 

A  lack  of  salt  in  proper  amount  causes  relaxed  con- 
dition of  muscular  tissue,  falling  of  the  womb  and 
varicose  veins.  Sometimes  there  is  a  non-functional 
combination  of  this  salt  with  oil  and  albumen  which 
forms  a  solid  deposit,  causing  swelling  of  stony  hard- 
ness ;  it  is  a  sort  of  incomplete  fibre  with  other  lime 
salts  and  vitiated  fluids  of  the  body. 

LEO  :     Phosphate  of  Magnesia. 

Synonyms :  Magnesium  Phosphorica. 

Formula :  MgHOPOJ  (H2O) . 

This  cell-salt  may  be  made  by  mixing  Phosphate  of 
Soda  with  Sulphate  of  Magnesia.  This  salt  is  found 
chiefly  in  the  white  fibres  of  nerves  and  muscles.  The 
tissues  of  nerves  and  muscles  are  composed  of  many 
very  fine  threads  or  strands  of  different  colors,  each 

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acting  as  a  special  telegraph  wire,  each  one  having  a 
certain  conductile  power  or  quality,  special  chemical 
affinity  for,  certain  organic  substances,  oil  or  albu- 
men, through  and  by  which  the  organism  is  material- 
ized and  the  process  or  operations  of  life  are  carried 
on.  The  imagination  might  easily  conceive  the  idea 
that  these  delicate  infinitesimal  fibres  are  strings  of 
the  Human  Harp,  and  that  molecular  minerals  are 
the  fingers  of  infinite  Energy  striking  notes  of  some 
Divine  Anthem. 

The  white  fibres  of  nerves  and  muscles  need  the 
dynamic  action  of  Magnesia  Phosphate  especially  to 
keep  them  in  proper  tune,  or  function,  for  by  its 
chemical  action  on  albumen  the  special  fluid  for  white 
nerve  or  muscle  fibre  is  formed.  When  the  supply 
of  this  salt  falls  below  the  standard,  cramps,  sharp 
shooting  pains  or  some  spasmodic  condition  prevails. 
Such  symptoms  are  simply  calls  of  nature  for  more 
magnesia. 

The  impulsive  traits  of  Leo  people  are  symboled 
In  the  pulse,  which  is  a  reflex  of  heart  throbs. 

The  phosphate  of  magnesia,  in  biochemic  thera- 
peutics, is  the  remedy  for  all  spasmodic  impulsive 
symptoms.  This  salt  supplies  the  deficient  worker 
or  builder  in  such  cases  and  thus  restores  normal  con- 
ditions. A  lack  of  muscular  force,  or  nerve  vigor, 
indicates  a  disturbance  in  the  operation  of  the  heart 
cell-salt,  magnesia  phosphate,  which  gives  the  "Lion's 
spring,"  or  impulse. 

VIRGO:     Sulphate  of  Potash. 

Synonyms :  Potassium  Sulphate,  Kali  Sulphos,  Po- 
tassae  Sulphos,  Kali  Sulphate. 

Formula :  K2SO4. 

The  miscroscope  reveals  the  fact  that,  when  the 
tody  is  in  health,  little  jets  of  steam  are  constantly 
.escaping  from  the  seven  million  pores  of  the  skin. 

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The  human  body  is  a  furnace  and  steam  engine.  The 
stomach  and  bowels  burn  food  by  chemical  operation 
as  truly  as  the  furnace  of  a  locomotive  consumes  by 
combustion.  In  the  case  of  the  locomotive  the  burn- 
ing of  coal  furnishes  force  which  vibrates  water  and 
causes  an  expansion  (rate  of  motion)  that  we  name 
steam. 

The  average  area  of  skin  is  estimated  to  be  about 
2,000  square  inches.  The  atmospheric  pressure  be- 
ing fourteen  pounds  to  the  square  inch,  a  person  of 
medium  size  is  subject  to  a  pressure  of  40,000 
pounds. 

Each  square  inch  of  skin  contains  3500  sweat  tubes 
or  perspiratory  pores  (each  of  which  may  be  likened 
to  a  little  drain  tile)  one-fourth  of  an  inch  in  length, 
making  an  aggregate  length  of  the  entire  surface  of 
the  body  201,166  feet,  or  a  tile  draining  for  the  body 
nearly  forty  miles  in  length. 

All  tangible  elements  are  the  effects  of  certain 
rates  of  motion  on  the  intangible  and  unseen  ele- 
ments. Nitrogen  gas  is  mineral  in  solution,  or  ulti- 
mate potency. 

Oil  is  made  by  the  union  of  the  sulphate  of  potas- 
sium (potash)  with  albuminoids  and  aerial  elements. 

The  first  element  that  is  disturbed  in  the  organism 
of  those  born  in  the  celestial  sign  Virgo  is  oil;  this 
break  in  the  function  of  oils  shows  a  deficiency  in 
potassium  sulphate,  known  in  pharmacy  as  kali  sulph. 

Virgo  is  represented  in  the  human  body  by  the 
stomach  and  bowels,  the  laboratory  in  which  food  is 
consumed  as  fuel  to  set  free  the  minerals,  in  order 
that  they  may  enter  the  blood  through  the  mucous 
membrane  absorbents. 

The  letter  X  in  Hebrew  is  Samech  or  Stomach.  X 
or  cross,  means  crucifixion,  or  charge,  transmutation. 

LIBRA  :     Phosphate  of  Soda. 

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Synonyms:  Natrum  Phosphate,  Sodium  Phos- 
phate, Phosphos  Natricus,  Sodae  Phosphate. 

Formula:  Na2HPO4;12H2O. 

This  alkaline  cell-salt  is  made  from  bone  ash  or  by 
neutralizing  orthophosphoric  acid  with  carbonate  of 
sodium. 

Sodium,  or  natrum,  phosphate  holds  the  balance 
between  acids  and  normal  fluids  of  the  human  body. 

Acid  is  organic  and  can  be  chemically  split  into 
two  or  more  elements,  thus  destroying  the  formula 
that  makes  the  chemical  rate  of  motion  called  acid. 

Acid  conditions  are  not  due  to  an  excess  of  acid  in 
the  blood,  bile  or  gastric  fluids.  Supply  the  alkaline 
salt  sodium  phosphate,  and  acid  will  chemically 
change  to  normal  fluids. 

A  certain  amount  of  acid  is  necessary,  and  always 
present  in  the  blood,  nerve,  stomach  and  liver  fluids. 
The  apparent  excess  of  acid  is  nearly  always  due  to  a 
deficiency  in  the  alkaline,  salt. 

Acid,  in  alchemical  lore,  is  represented  as  Satan 
(Saturn),  while  sodium  phosphate  symbolizes  Christ 
(Venus).  An  absence  of  the  Christ  principle  gives 
license  to  Satan  to  run  riot  in  the  Holy  Temple.  The 
Advent  of  Christ  drives  the  thief  out  with  a  whip  of 
thongs.  Reference  to  temple  in  the  figurative  lan- 
guage of  Bible  and  New  Testament  always  symbols 
the  human  organism.  "Know  ye  not  that  your  bodies 
are  the  Temple  of  the  living  God?" 

Solomon's  temple  is  an  allegory  of  the  physical 
body  of  man  and  woman.  Soul — of  man's  temple — 
the  house,  church,  Beth  or  temple  made  without 
sound  of  "saw  or  hammer." 

Hate,  envy,  criticism,  jealousy,  competition,  selfish- 
ness, war,  suicide  and  murder  are  largely  caused  by 
acid  conditions  of  the  blood  producing  changes  upon 
which  Soul  plays  "Divine  Harmonies"  or  "fantastic 

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tricks  before  high  heaven,"  according  to  the  arrange- 
ment of  chemical  molecules  in  the  wondrous  labora- 
tory of  the  soul. 

Without  a  proper  balance  of  the  alkaline  salt,  the 
agent  of  peace  and  love,  man  is  fit  for  "treason,  strat- 
agem and  spoils." 

SCORPIO  :     Sulphate  of  Lime. 

Synonyms:  Calcium  Sulphate,  Calcarea  Sulphate, 
Calc  Sulphos,  Gypsum,  Plaster  of  Paris. 

Formula :  CaSo4. 

This  salt  can  be  obtained  by  precipitating  a  solu- 
tion of  chloride  of  lime  with  dilute  sulphuric  acid. 

SAGITTARIUS  :  The  mineral  or  cell-salt  of  blood 
corresponding  to  Sagittarius  is  Silica. 

Synonyms:  Silica,  Silic,  Oxide,  White  Pebble  or 
Common  Quartz.  Chemical  abbreviation,  Si. 

Made  by  fusing  crude  silica  with  carbonate  of 
soda;  dissolve  the  residue,  filter,  and  precipitate  by 
hydrochloric  acid. 

This  product  must  be  triturated  as  per  biochemic 
process  before  using  internally. 

This  salt  is  the  surgeon  of  the  human  organism. 
Silica  is  found  in  hair,  skin,  nails,  periosteum,  the 
membrane  covering  and  protecting  bone,  the  nerve 
sheath,  called  neurilemma,  and  a  trace  is  found  in 
bone  tissue.  The  surgical  qualities  of  silica  lie  in  the 
fact  that  its  particles  are  sharp  cornered.  A  piece  of 
quartz  is  a  sample  of  the  finer  particles.  Reduce  silica 
to  an  inpalpable  powder  and  the  microscope  reveals 
the  fact  that  the  molecules  are  still  pointed  and  jag- 
ged like  a  large  piece  of  quartz  rock.  In  all  cases 
where  it  becomes  necessary  that  decaying  organic 
matter  be  discharged  from  any  part  of  the  body  by 
the  process  of  suppuration,  these  sharp-pointed  par- 
ticles are  pushed  by  the  marvellous  intelligence  that 
operates  without  ceasing,  day  and  night,  in  the  won- 

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drous  human  Beth,  and  like  a  lancet  cut  a  passage  to 
the  surface  for  the  discharge  of  pus.  Nowhere  in  all 
the  records  of  physiology  or  biological  research  can 
anything  be  found  more  wonderful  than  the  chemical 
and  mechanical  operation  of  this  Divine  artisan. 

The  Centaur  of  mythology  is  known  in  the  "Cir- 
cles of  Beasts  that  worship  before  the  Lord  (Sun) 
day  and  night,"  as  Sagittarius,  the  Archer,  with 
drawn  bow.  Arrow  heads  are  composed  of  fiint,  de- 
carbonized white  pebble  or  quartz.  Thus  we  see  why 
silica  is  the  special  birth  salt  of  all  born  in  the  Sagit- 
tarius sign. 

CAPICORN  :     Phosphate  of  Lime. 

Synonyms:  Calcerea  Phosphoricum,  Calcium  Phos- 
phate. 

Formula:  Ca3Po4. 

Phosphoric  acid  dropped  in  lime  water  precipitates 
this  salt. 

Circle  means  Sacrifice,  according  to  the  Cabala,  the 
straight  line  bending  to  form  a  circle.  Thus  we  find 
twelve  zodiacal  signs  sacrificing  to  the  sun.  Twelve 
months  sacrifice  for  a  solar  year.  Twelve  functions 
of  man's  body  sacrifice  for  the  temple,  Beth,  or 
"Church  of  God" — the  human  house  of  flesh.  Twelve 
minerals — known  as  cell-salts — sacrifice  by  operation 
and  combining  to  build  tissue.  The  dynamic  force 
of  these  vitalized  workmen  constitutes  the  chemical 
affinities — the  positive  and  negative  poles  of  mineral 
expression.  The  Cabalistic  numerical  value  of  the 
letters  g,  o,  a,  t,  add  up  12. 

AQUARIUS  :     Sodium  Chloride. 

Synonyms:  Natrum  Muriaticum,  Sodii  Chlorid- 
ium,  Chloruretum,  Chloruretum  of  Sodicum,  Com- 
mon table  salt.  Must  be  triturated  up  to  3d  decimal 
before  it  can  be  taken  up  by  mucous  membrane  ab- 
sorbants  and  carried  into  the  circulation. 

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Formula:  NaCe. 

Air  contains  78  per  cent  of  nitrogen  gas,  believed 
by  scientists  to  be  mineral  in  ultimate  potency.  Min- 
erals are  formed  by  the  precipitation  of  nitrogen 
gas.  Differentiation  is  attained  by  the  proportion  of 
oxygen  and  aqueous  vapor  (hydrogen)  that  unites 
with  nitrogen. 

A  combination  of  sodium  and  chlorine  forms  the 
mineral  known  as  common  salt.  This  mineral  ab- 
sorbs water.  The  circulation  or  distribution  of  water 
in  the  human  organism  is  due  to  the  chemical  action 
of  the  molecules  of  sodium  chloride. 

Aquarius  is  known  as  "The  Water  Bearer."  So- 
dium chloride,  known  also  as  natrum  muriaticum,  is 
also  a  bearer  of  water,  and  chemically  corresponds 
with  the  zodiacal  angle  of  Aquarius. 

PISCES:     Phosphate  of  Iron. 

Synonyms:  Ferrum  Phosphate,  Ferri  Phosphas. 

Formula:  Fe3  (PO4)2. 

Phosphate  of  iron  may  be  prepared  by  mixing  so- 
dium phosphate  with  sulphate  of  iron.  The  salt  pre- 
cipitated by  this  union  is  filtered,  washed,  dried  and 
rubbed  to  a  powder. 

The  iron  phosphate  should  not  be  used  below  the 
sixth  (decimal  trituration),  as  large  doses  of  iron, 
as  in  tinctures,  have  a  bad  effect  on  the  mucous  lining 
of  the  stomach,  injure  the  teeth  and  utterly  fail  to 
supply  iron  to  the  blood  where  it  is  needed  to  carry 
oxygen,  the  life  giver. 

One  red  blood  corpuscle  does  not  exceed  the  one 
hundred  and  twenty  millionth  of  a  cubic  inch.  There 
are  more  than  three  million  such  cells  in  one  drop  of 
blood,  and  these  cells  carry  the  iron  in  the  blood. 
How  necessary,  then,  to  administer  the  salts  of  iron 
to  hungry  cells  in  the  most  minute  molecular  form. 

Each  one  of  the  twelve  inorganic  salts  has  its  own 

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sphere  of  function  and  curative  action.  Thus  we 
find  the  phosphate  of  iron  molecularly  deficient  in  all 
fevers  and  inflammatory  symptoms. 

Health  depends  on  a  proper  amount  of  iron  phos- 
phate in  the  blood,  for  the  molecules  of  this  salt  have 
chemical  affinity  for  oxygen  and  carry  it  to  all  parts 
of  the  organism.  When  these  oxygen  carriers  are 
deficient,  the  circulation  is  increased  in  order  to  con- 
duct a  sufficient  amount  of  oxygen  to  the  extremities 
with  the  diminished  quantity  of  iron,  exactly  as  seven 
men  must  move  faster  to  do  the  work  of  ten.  This 
increased  rate  of  motion  of  the  blood  is  changed  to 
heat,  caused  by  friction,  otherwise  known  as  the 
"conservation  of  energy." 

This  heat,  or  increase  in  the  temperature  of  blood, 
has  been  named  fever,  from  the  Latin  word  fervere, 
meaning  "To  boil  out." 

The  writer  fails  to  see  any  relevancy  between  the 
word  fever  and  a  deficiency  in  iron  phosphate  mole- 
cules in  the  blood.  From  Hippocrates  to  Koch  you 
will  not  find  a  true  definition  of  fever  outside  of  the 
Biochemic  theory. 

It  is  not  simply  the  heat  that  causes  distress  in  a 
fever  patient,  but  it  is  the  lack  of  oxygen  in  the  blood 
due  to  a  deficiency  in  iron,  the  carrier  of  oxygen. 

The  feet  are  the  foundation  of  the  body.  Iron  is 
the  foundation  of  blood.  Most  diseases  of  Pisces 
people  commence  with  symptoms  indicating  a  defici- 
ency of  iron  molecules  in  the  blood;  hence  it  is  infer- 
red that  those  born  between  the  dates  of  February 
19  and  March  21  use  more  iron  than  do  those  born 
in  other  signs. 

Iron  is  known  as  the  magnetic  mineral,  due  to  the 
fact  that  it  attracts  oxygen.  Pisces  people  possess 
great  magnetic  force  "in  their  hands  and  make  the 
best  magnetic  healers. 

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The  Bridge  of  Life 

The  astronomer,  by  the  unerring  law  of  mathe- 
matics applied  to  space,  proportion,  and  the  so  far 
discovered  wheels  and  cogs  of  the  uni-machine,  can 
tell  where  a  certain  planet  must  be  located,  before  the 
telescope  has  verified  the  prediction.  So  the  astro- 
biochemist  knows  there  must  of  necessity  be  a  blood 
mineral  and  tissue  builder  to  correspond  with  each  of 
the  duodenary  segments  that  constitute  the  circle  of 
the  Zodiac. 

Not  through  quarantine,  nor  disinfectants,  nor 
boards  of  health,  will  man  reach  the  long-sought 
plane  of  physical  well-being;  nor  by  denials  of  disease 
will  bodily  regeneration  be  wrought;  nor  by  dieting 
or  fasting  or  "Fletcherizing"  or  suggesting,  will  the 
Elixir  of  Life  and  the  Philosopher's  Stone  be  found. 
The  Mercury  of  the  Sages  and  the  "hidden  manna" 
are  not  constituents  of  health  foods.  Victims  of  salt 
baths  and  massages  are  bald  before  their  time,  and 
the  alcohol,  steam  and  Turkish  bath  fiends  die  young. 
Only  when  man's  body  is  made  chemically  perfect 
will  the  mind  be  able  perfectly  to  express  itself. 

And  the  secret  of  this  chemical  perfectionment  is 
the  sum  total  of  the  requirements  involved  in  this 
zodiacal  Bridge.  The  rock — Peter,  or  Petra — must 
be  perfectly  formed  before  the  etheric  wires  which 
span  the  gulf  between  birth  forward  to  the  sidereal 
point  of  conception  can  vibrate  in  such  harmony  as  to 
sustain  the  traveller  on  this  "magical  bridge  of  three 
piers,"  or  the  three  zodiacal  signs  through  which  the 
material  body  must  successfully  function  before  it 
may  hope  to  lift  the  veil  of  Isis. 

The  Bridge  of  Life,  a  symbol  of  physical  regene- 
sis,  has  been  exploited  in  song,  drama,  and  story. 
Paracelsus,  Pythagoras,  Lycurgus,  Valentin,  Wag- 
ner, and  a  long  and  unbroken  line  of  the  Illuminati, 
from  time  immemorial  have  chanted  their  epics  in 

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unison  with  this  uriddle  of  the  Sphinx,"  across  the 
scroll  of  which  is  written,  "Solve  me,  or  die." 

Of  all  the  multiple  adepts  or  masters  that  have 
kept  the  lights  burning  above  the  Three  Piers  of  the 
magical  Bridge,  none  has  more  clearly  and  beauti- 
fully written  thereof  than  did  the  great  astrologian 
poet,  Isaiah : 

"Then  the  eyes  of  the  blind  shall  be  opened,  and 
the  ears  of  the  deaf  shall  be  unstopped.  Then  shall 
the  lame  man  leap  as  a  hart,  and  the  tongue  of  the 
dumb  shall  sing;  for  in  the  widerness  shall  waters 
break  out,  and  streams  in  the  desert.  And  the  glow- 
ing sand  shall  become  a  pool,  and  the  thirsty  ground 
springs  of  water;  in  the  habitation  of  jackals,  where 
they  lay,  shall  be  grass  with  reeds  and  rushes.  And 
a  highway  shall  be  there,  and  a  way  and  it  shall  be 
called,  The  Way  of  Holiness;  the  unclean  shall  not 
pass  over  it,  but  it  shall  be  for  the  redeemed ;  the  way- 
faring men,  yea  fools,  shall  not  err  therein." 


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PART  THREE 
Optic  Thalmus 

HE  inner  eye — "the  eye  behind  the  eye" 
just  above  and  attached  to  the  pineal 
gland  by  delicate  electric  wires,  is  called 
Optic  Thalmus,  and  means  "Light,  or 
Eye  of  the  Chamber." 

In  the  Greek,  it  means  "The  Light  of  the  World," 
"The  Candlestick,"  "Wise  Virgins,"  "The  Temple 
Needs  no  Light  of  the  Sun,"  "If  Thine  Eye  be 
Single,  Thy  Whole  Body  shall  be  Full  of  Light,"  and 
other  texts  in  the  New  Testament  refer  to  the  single 
eye  or  Optic  Thalmus. 

Let  us  now  search  for  the  oil  that  feeds  this  won- 
derful lamp,  the  All-Seeing  Eye. 

Christ  Jesus  is  made  to  say  "I  am  the  Light  of  the 
World."  The  word  "world"  comes  from  whirl,"  to 
turn  as  a  wheel,  to  gyrate. 

The  human  body  is  a  certain  rate  of  activity, 
motion  or  whirl,  i.  e.  world,  and  the  light  of  the 
world  and  the  temple  that  needs  no  light  of  sun  or 
moon  refer  to  the  body  "Temple  of  God,"  when 
there  is  "oil  in  the  lamp." 

Error  is  not  sanctified  by  age.  It  behooves  every 
lover  of  truth  to  cast  aside  prejudice  and  dogma  and 
find  truth. 

Until  we  know  the  meaning  of  the  words  "Jesus" 
and  "Christ"  we  will  not  understand  the  bible,  which 
was  written  in  Greek  and  Hebrew  and  translated 
and  retranslated  to  suit  the  whims  and  ignorance  of 

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priests  and  charlatans  all  down  through  the  centuries. 

Constantine,  a  beast  in  human  form,  who  mur- 
dered his  mother  and  boiled  his  wife  in  oil,  was  the 
chief  factor  in  the  orthodox  translation  of  the  so- 
called  King  James  bible. 

Constantine  was  told  by  the  priests  of  his  time  that 
there  was  no  forgiveness  of  crimes  like  those  that  he 
was  guilty  of,  and  so  this  Roman  Emperor  devised 
the  plan  of  salvation,  in  order  that  the  blood  of  the 
innocent  Jesus  (or  Christ)  might  save  him  from 
eternal  damnation.  An  easy  way  out  for  this  mon- 
ster, and  all  the  other  blood-smeared  tyrants,  Kings, 
Emperors  and  Napoleons  of  finance,  competition  and 
war,  from  Pharaoh  to  the  present  day  rulers  whose 
thrones  and  scepters  lie  scattered  and  broken  along 
the  Highway  of  Nations  (1917). 

"Here  the  Vassal  and  the  King,  side  by  side,  lie 
withering.  Here  the  sword  and  scepter  rust.  "Earth 
to  Earth,  and  dust  to  dust." 

The  word  Jesus  is  from  Ichtus,  Greek  for  fish. 
The  word  "Christ"  means  a  substance  of  oil  con- 
sistency, an  ointment  or  smear.  Varnish  or  paints 
are  used  to  preserve  or  save  wood  or  paper  or  cloth 
— hence  they  become  Saviors. 

At  about  the  age  of  twelve,  Jesus  was  found  in 
the  temple  arguing  with  the  doctors  or  teachers.  The 
word  "doctor"  is  from  Latin  "docere,"  to  teach. 

Now  read  carefully:  Every  month  in  the  life  of 
every  man  or  woman,  when  the  moon  is  in  the  sign 
that  the  sun  was  in  at  the  birth  of  the  individual, 
there  is  a  psycho-physical  seed  or  "Son  of  Man" 
born  near  the  Solar  Plexus  or  the  pneumo-gastric 
plexus  which,  in  the  ancient  text,  was  called  the 
"House  of  Bread,"  "The  Tree  of  Life,"  etc. 

Bethlehem  is  from  Beth,  a  house,  and  helm,  bread. 
"Cast  thy  bread  upon  the  waters  and  it  shall  return 

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to  thee  after  many  days."  Waters  are  the  blood  and 
nerve  fluids  of  the  body  which  carry  the  fish  on  its 
"Divine  Journey"  to  regenerate,  save  and  redeem 
man.  Nazareth  means  to  cook.  Nazarene  means 
cooked.  Cook  means  to  prepare.  Any  materialized 
thing  is  bread,  Nazareth,  mass,  maso,  or  dough. 
Thus  the  Catholic  Mass.  Also  Maso-n.  It  will  now 
be  made  plain  why  the  Masons  and  Catholics  are  not 
in  agreement,  for  our  letter  N  is  an  abbreviation  of 
the  14th  letter  of  the  Hebrew  Alphabet,  Nun,  a 
fish.  By  adding  N  to  Maso,  the  riddle  of  cooked 
or  prepared  fish  was  made  so  plain  that  the  priest- 
hood strenuously  objected,  and  thus  developed  fric- 
tion between  the  church  and  Masonry. 

The  disciples  were  fishermen.  The  early  Chris- 
tians used  a  fish  as  their  secret  symbol.  Money  to 
pay  taxes  was  taken  from  the  mouth  of  a  fish.  Bread 
and  fish  were  increased  until  12  baskets  full  were 
left,  &c.  God  prepared  a  fish  to  swallow  Jonah. 
Jonah  means  dove.  Dove  means  peace — the  germ 
descending  from  the  gray  matter  of  the  brain  (See 
baptism  of  John).  The  storm  means  sex  desire. 
The  life  seed  was  thus  saved.  "He  that  is  born  of 
God  cannot  sin  (or  fall  short  of  knowledge)  for  his 
seed  (fish)  remaineth  in  him." — John.  The  age  of 
puberty  is  about  12.  Up  to  that  age,  a  child  does  not 
understand  moral  responsibility.  "The  first  born" 
means  the  first  seed  or  fish.  Pharaoh,  sex  desire, 
always  tries  to  destroy  the  first  born.  When  Jesus 
was  born  in  Bethlehem,  he  went  (at  the  age  of  12) 
up  the  pneumo-gastric  nerve,  which  crosses  the 
medulla  oblongata  at  its  junction  with  the  spinal  cord 
at  the  head  of  the  "River  of  Jordan,"  the  marrow 
or  nerve  fluid  of  the  spinal  cord — (See  illustration 
in  Physiological  Charts)  and  enters  the  cerebellum, 
the  temple.  This  is  the  temple  where  the  moral  seed 

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argued  with  the  purely  animal  cells  to  change  their 
rate  of  vibration  to  moral  and  spiritual  concept. 
Later  this  seed  (Jesus)  drove  those  who  bought 
and  sold  ("Even  as  you  and  I")  with  a  whip  of 
thongs  out  of  the  temple.  We  must  all  give  up  the 
animal  life  or  suffer  the  same  fate. 

Before  we  explain  the  baptism  in  Jordan  and  the 
christening  and  the  crucifixion,  &c,  let  us  briefly  ex- 
plain Moses,  Joshua,  Nile,  Pharaoh  and  the  children 
of  Israel. 

Egypt  means  the  dark  lower  part  of  the  body. 
That  part  of  the  body  below  the  Solar  Plexus  is 
Egypt,  or  the  Kingdom  of  Earth.  All  above  the 
center,  constitutes  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven.  ("The 
Kingdom  of  Heaven  is  within  you.")  The  Manger, 
or  Bethlehem,  is  the  center,  or  the  balance. 

Nile,  Moses  and  Pharaoh's  daughter,  all  refer  to 
generation.  (See  overflow  of  Nile).  It  rises  in 
mountains  of  the  moon.  Moses  means  "drawn  from 
the  water."  Fish  are  drawn  from  water.  "There 
are  two  fishes  in  our  sea" — Vaughn.  See  Sign  of 
Pisces,  two  fishes. 

Joshua  the  Son  of  Nun.    Nun  is  Hebrew  for  fish. 

Moses  was  the  physical  or  generative  fish. 

Moses'  laws  were  on  the  physical  plane. 

Joshua's  laws  were  spiritual.  Joshua  means  "God 
of  Salvation,"  and  salvation  comes  from  saliva  or 
salivation.  Sal  is  salt  which  Saves.  "If  the  salt 
loses  its  Savor"  i.  e.  Savior,  wherewith  shall  it  be 
salted?"  Saliva  saves  the  body  by  digesting  (or 
preparing)  the  food.  Saliva  is  a  smear  or  ointment, 
and  so  Joshua  compares  with  Christ  as  Moses  com- 
pares with  Jesus.  Moses  died  on  Mt.  Nebo.  Nebo 
means  understanding.  Joshua  took  the  place  left 
vacant  by  the  death  of  Moses.  Jesus  was  baptized 
of  John  in  Jordan — the  fluids,  the  Christ  substance 

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of  the  spinal  cord,  and  became,  "my  beloved  Son  in 
whom  I  am  well  pleased."  There  is  no  J  in  the 
Greek  or  Hebrew  alphabets,  therefore,  the  word 
"John"  I  O  H  N  meaning  "Soul"  or  "fluids  of  the 
body"  and  not  the  Ego  or  Spiritual  Man.  So  when 
the  body  dies,  the  fluids  die — thus  man  loses  his  soul 
when  he  loses  his  body.  To  prevent  the  loss  of  soul 
and  flesh  is  the  mission  of  the  Son,  or  Seed,  of  God, 
or  the  Son  of  man. 

There  are  two  very  small  nerves  that  extend  up 
from  Solar  Plexus,  cross  at  base  of  brain  and  unite 
at  the  Optic  Thalmus,  the  eye  of  the  chamber.  These 
nerves,  or  delicate  wires,  are  called  Adi  and  Pingali. 
After  the  seed  or  fish  has  been  Christed,  if  it  is 
retained  and  not  wasted  in  sexual  desire,  it  goes  up 
to  "Golgotha,"  the  place  of  the  skull,  and  crosses 
the  wires,  then  remains  three  days  in  the  tomb  or  the 
three  chambers  of  the  Pineal  gland,  then  it  enters  the 
Optic  Thalmus  and  "giveth  light  to  all  that  are  in 
the  house,"  that  is,  the  beth  or  body,  all  the  twelve 
functions  represented  by  the  twelve  disciples — the 
twelve  signs  of  the  Zodiac. 

But  the  question  will  be  asked — What  or  where  is 
the  source  or  origin  of  this  seed  or  redeeming  Son? 
We  answer:  Ether,  Spirit  or  God.  Names  mean 
nothing. 

Esse,  Universal  intelligence,  or  It  may  be  used. 
It  breathes  into  man  the  breath  of  life.  This  elixir 
is  carried  through  lungs  into  arteries,  or  air  carriers, 
where  it  unites  with  the  inorganic  cell-salts,  material- 
izes (cooked),  and  forms  granules,  and  is  then 
deposited  as  flesh  and  bone. 

The  study  of  Astrology,  Biology  and  Biochem- 
istry, added  to  Physiology,  will  lead  one  into  the 
great  Alchemical  laboratory  of  the  "Fearfully  and 

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wonderfully"  made  human  temple — the  temple  made 
without  sound  of  saw  or  hammer. 

Before  the  Neophyte  can  fully  realize  the  power 
of  the  Optic  Thalmus,  the  Divine  Eye  within  his  own 
brain,  he  must  understand  the  meaning  of  Or  espe- 
cially in  its  relation  to  Word  and  Jordan. 

Jordan  (not  Jordan)  is  the  word  in  the  original 
text.  I  is  framed  from  lod — the  10th  letter  of  the 
Hebrew  Alphabet,  and  means  "hand,"  or  that  which 
creates.  Or  is  gold,  not  metal,  but  the  "precious 
substance" — the  seed.  Dan  is  Hebrew  for  Judge, 
therefore  the  Creative  Power,  operating  through  the 
precious  substance,  produces  Judgment,  or  the  man 
of  good  judgment. 

The  upper  brain  is  the  reservoir  of  this  Or  and  is 
the  gray  matter  or  "Precious  Ointment"  of  Christ. 

"In  the  beginning  was  the  Word  and  the  Word 
was  God/  All  things  were  (or  is)  created  by  it,"  &c. 

The  upper  brain  is  the  Word,  and  it  furnishes  all 
that  man  contains,  or  is.  Jesus  was  not  a  Savior 
until  he  was  Christed  of  lohn  in  the  Jordan.  Then 
he  became  the  "Beloved  Son." 

Why  was  the  baptism  necessary?  Because  there 
are  two  fish.  One  was  Jesus,  the  Carpenter,  the  man; 
the  other,  the  Christed  Jesus  the  Son  of  God.  The 
Christ  substance  gave  the  electric  or  magnetic  power 
to  the  seed  to  cross  the  nerves  at  Golgotha  without 
disintegrating  or  dying. 

To  crucify,  means  to  add  to  or  increase  a  thousand 
fold.  When  electric  wires  are  crossed,  they  set  on 
fire  all  inflammable  substances  near  them.  When  the 
Christed  seed  crossed  the  nerve  at  Golgotha,  the  veil 
of  the  temple  was  rent  and  there  was  an  earthquake, 
and  the  dead  came  forth,  i.  e.  the  generative  cells 
of  the  body  were  quickened  or  regenerated. 

The  crucifixion  or  crossing  of  the  life  seed  gives 

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power  to  vibrate  the  pineal  gland  at  a  rate  that 
causes  the  Optic  Thalmus  to  fill  the  "whole  body 
with  light,"  and  send  its  vibration  out  along  the  optic 
nerve  to  the  physical  eye,  and  thus  heal  the  blind. 

Let  us  hark  back  to  the  Nile :  Pharaoh  means  a 
ruler  or  a  tyrant  or  sex  desire.  Israel  means  blood, 
children  of  Israel,  molecules  of  the  blood. 

"Moses  lifted  up  the  serpent,"  &c.  Moses,  the 
first  born,  the  seed,  desired  to  regenerate  the  blood 
and  lead  it  to  the  promised  land,  thus  he  lifted  up 
sex  desire,  here  symboled  as  the  serpent  (See  the 
temptation  of  the  Adam  and  Eve.)  ...  So 
shall  the  "Son  of  Man  be  lifted  up,"  &c,  &c. — that 
is  put  on  the  cross  in  order  to  reach  the  pineal  gland. 
1  'If  I  be  lifted  up,  I  will  draw  all  men  unto  me," 
I  will  draw  all  other  seed  unto  me.  Study  the  ety- 
mology of  "men." 

The  tree  in  the  midst  of  the  garden  bore  fruit 
every  month  and  its  leaves  were  healing. 

The  Commandment  to  not  eat  of  the  fruit  of  this 
tree  was  not  (is  not)  heeded  by  the  race,  and  death 
is  the  result. 

The  serpent  said  "Eat,  thou  shalt  not  die,"  but 
sex  desire  was  a  liar  from  the  beginning. 

A  noted  Professor  of  Greek,  in  one  of  our  Uni- 
versities, says  that  the  translation  of  many  New  Test- 
ament texts  from  Greek  are  radically  wrong.  For 
instance,  "He  that  saveth  his  life,  shall  lose  it,  and 
he  that  loseth  his  life,  for  my  sake,  shall  find  it," 
should  read:  "He  that  saveth  his  seed — life — shall 
loosen  it  (set  it  free),  and  he  that  loosens  it,  shall 
find  it,"  which  means  that  this  "Bread  cast  upon  the 
waters"  shall  redeem  him. 

Galilee  means  a  circle  of  water — the  fluids  of  the 
body.  Jesus  walking  on  the  water  is  a  symbol  of 
the  seed,  or  fish,  on  its  journey.  Peter,  from  petra 

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(stone)  is  a  symbol  of  physical  or  material  thought 
which  was  rescued  by  the  fish,  Savior. 

The  Optic  Thalmus  is  called  "The  Lamb  of  God 
that  taketh  away  the  sins  of  the  world" 

Sin  is  from  the  Hebrew  letter  Schin,  meaning  to 
fall  short  of  knowledge.  Sin  does  not  mean  wrong 
or  crime,  but  one  may  commit  a  crime  or  do  wrong 
through  lack  of  knowledge.  Paul  said:  "I  die  daily" 
.  .  .  .  "I  am  the  chief  of  sinners."  Revela- 
tions: "And  the  lamp  thereof  is  the  Lamb."  The 
word,  "Lamb,"  ends  with  B,  which  means  a  house  or 
body  of  some  kind.  Now,  the  optic,  or  central  single 
eye,  is  a  body,  like  the  outer  eye  ball;  therefore,  a 
beth.  This  is  called  lamb  by  the  ancient  poet. 

Lamp  ending  with  P,  which  means  speech  or 
sending  forth  or  radiating,  and  is  from  Pe,  the  8th 
letter  of  the  Hebrew  Alphabet,  and  was  used  to 
express  light,  or  knowledge,  emanating  or  going 
forth  from  this  eye  or  "Lamb  of  God." 

"As  a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart,  so  is  he." 

The  cerebellum  is  heart  shaped,  and  in  the  Greek 
is  known  as  the  heart.  The  organ  that  divides  blood 
was  called  the  "Dividing  Pump."  The  seat  of 
thought  is  the  Cerebellum.  Our  thoughts  shape  our 
lives.  If  we  think  continually  below  the  solar  plexus 
in  the  Kingdom  of  the  Earth;  if  we  dwell  in  thoughts 
of  material  pleasures,  we  become  animal  and  mate- 
rialistic. If  we  really  desire  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven, 
we  must  think  of  the  process  that  will  enable  us  to 
realize  it. 

When  Jesus  was  born,  they  put  him  in  "swadling 
clothes."  Now  the  psychic  germ  (fish)  is  composed 
of  the  concentrated  essence  of  life,  and  is  covered  by 
a  gossamer  capsule  for  protection.  If  this  swadling 
cloth  is  broken,  the  "precious  ointment"  is  lost,  i.  e. 
it  disintegrates  and  corrupts  the  blood. 
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In  order  to  save  this  germ  of  life,  man  must 
remember,  that  as  a  man  thinketh,  so  is  he.  While 
men  must  abstain  entirely  from  sexual  contact,  he 
must  also  realize  that  "He  who  looketh  on  a  woman 
to  lust  after  her,  hath  committed  adultery  with  her 
in  his  heart" 

By  constant  prayer  do  we  attain  the  Kingdom. 

Envy,  hatred,  ambition,  covetousness,  will  destroy 
the  capsule  that  contains  the  seed,  and  thus  corrupt 
the  blood  as  surely  as  sexual  contact.  Alcohol  in 
all  its  deceptive  forms  is  the  arch  foe  to  this  life-seed, 
and  seeks  by  every  means  known  to  the  enemy  of 
man,  to  destroy  it.  "No  drunkard  shall  inherit  the 
Kingdom  of  Heaven,"  because  alcohol  destroys  the 
redeeming  substance  that  enables  man  to  understand 
or  think  in  his  heart  the  thoughts  of  the  Spirit.  Alco- 
hol cuts  the  capsule  that  holds  the  Esse,  born  every 
month  in  Bethlehem.  Alcohol  eats  the  fruit  of  the 
tree  of  life. 

Gluttony  is  another  enemy  to  regeneration.  All 
excess  of  food,  all  that  is  not  burnt  up  in  the  furnace 
— the  stomach  and  intestinal  tract — all  that  is  not 
properly  digested  ferments  and  produces  acid  which 
develops  alcohol. 

Auto  intoxication  is  common  among  those  who 
overeat.  Most  every  one  overeats. 

The  furnace,  stomach  and  digestive  tract,  becomes 
a  distillery,  when  the  surplus  food  ferments ;  and  thus 
becomes  Babylon,  the  home  of  unclean  birds  and 
beasts  which  pander  to  carnal  mind. 

Here  we  have  the  reason  why  sickness  was  consid- 
ered Sin  by  the  ancients:  "To  heal  the  sick  and 
cast  out  devils"  is  the  mission  of  the  seed.  "He 
that  is  born  of  God  cannot  sin,  or  be  sick,  for  his 
seed  remaineth  in  him."  "The  blood  of  Christ 
cleanseth  from  all  sin";  therefore  from  all  disease. 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

Here  is  the  physiological  explanation :  When  the 
Christed  substance,  the  ointment  from  the  river  Jor- 
dan,, the  oil  in  the  spinal  cord,  reaches  the  pineal 
gland,  it  vibrates  to  a  rate  that  causes  new  blood — 
the  new  wine.  This  is  the  blood  of  Christ  that  heals 
all  infirmities.  Unless,  so-called,  Christians  repent 
of  their  sins,  the  doom  of  the  church  is  at  hand; 
"Mene,  mene  teckel  upharsin"  is  written  on  the  wall. 

Here  are  the  words  that  define  a  Christian: 
"These  signs  shall  follow  those  who  believe;  they 
shall  lay  hands  on  the  sick  and  they  shall  recover. 
They  shall  cast  out  devils  and  raise  the  dead.  All 
the  things  that  I  do,  ye  shall  do,  and  greater  things 
shall  ye  do." 

If  there  be  one  Christian  on  Earth  today,  let  him 
stand  forth  and  prove  himself  worthy.  "He  that 
overcometh,  I  will  give  to  eat  of  the  fruit  of  the  tree 
of  life."  To  overcome  a  habit  is  to  cease  to  do  it. 
When  the  earthly  man  is  controlled  by  the  spiritual 
man — the  Lord  God — he  ceases  to  eat  of  the  fruit, 
that  is,  waste  it.  This  fruit  is  then  carried  up  to  the 
brain  and  "Eaten  in  the  Father's  Kingdom."  "And 
the  last  enemy  to  be  overcome  is  death."  We 
overcome  death  by  ceasing  to  die,  and  in  no  other 
way.  "He  that  believeth  in  me,  shall  not  perish." 
Those  who  die  are  sinners,  and,  therefore,  are  not 
Christians,  for  Christ  Jesus  was  (is)  without  sin. 
"The  wages  of  Sin  is  death."  "Repent,  forsake  evil, 
take  up  thy  Cross,  call  upon  the  Lord  and  He  will 
abundantly  pardon."  "And  the  ransomed  of  the 
Lord  shall  return  and  come  to  Zion." 

When  the  sexual  functions  are  used  for  the  propa- 
gation of  human  bodies,  there  is  no  condemnation 
or  sin.  Motherhood  is  holy,  pure,  divine.  But 
motherhood  forced,  is  crime.  Unwilling  mother- 
hood has  created  the  spirit  of  war  and  murder  and 

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Optic  Thalmus 

has  well  nigh  destroyed  the  race.  Sexual  union  for 
pleasure  alone  is  the  broad  road  that  leads  to  death. 
"And  there  shall  be  no  more  Curse" — Revelation. 
The  word  "Curse"  has  no  reference  to  an  oath. 
Curse  means  friction,  to  grind.  The  statement, 
"Then  Peter  began  to  curse  and  swear"  .  .  . 
And  immediately  the  cock  crew,"  when  understood 
physiologically,  fully  explains  the  meaning  of  curse. 

Sexual  commerce  for  the  birth  of  children  where 
the  parents  sacrifice  themselves  for  their  offsprings' 
sake,  or  total  abstinence,  is  written  with  a  pen  of 
flame  on  all  the  pages  of  ancient  Scriptures  and 
modern  biology. 

"And  I  saw  a  woman  clothed  with  the  Sun,  having 
the  Moon  under  her  feet  and  twelve  stars  upon  her 
head."  The  Sun  is  the  "Son  of  Man,"  the  product 
of  her  own  body  saved  and  lifted  up.  The  Moon 
refers  to  the  generative  life.  Twelve  stars  are  the 
twelve  functions,  typified  by  twelve  zodiacal  signs, 
which  she  has  mastered  through  physical  regen- 
eration. 

Miss  Ruth  Le  Prade,  the  woman  poet  of  the  New 
Time,  sings  of  the  Kingdom  as  follows : 

"I  am  a  woman  free.     My  song 
Flows  from  my  soul  with  pure  and  joyful  strength. 
It  shall  be  heard  through  all  the  noise  of  things — 
A  song  of  joy  where  songs  of  joy  were  not. 
My  sister  singers,  singing  in  the  past, 
Sang  songs  of  melody  but  not  of  joy — 
For  woman's  name  was  Sorrow,  and  the  slave 
Is  never  joyful,  tho  he  smiles. 

"I  am  a  woman  free.    Too  long 
I  was  held  captive  in  the  dust.    Too  long 

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My  soul  was  surfeited  with  toil  or  ease 
And  rotted  as  the  plaything  of  a  slave. 
I  am  a  woman  free  at  last 
After  the  crumbling  centuries  of  time. 
Free  to  achieve  and  understand; 
Free  to  become  and  live. 

I  am  a  woman  free.    With  face 
Turned  toward  the  sun,  I  am  advancing 
Toward  love  that  is  not  lust, 
Toward  work  that  is  not  pain, 
Toward  home  which  is  the  world, 
Toward  motherhood  which  is  not  forced, 
And  toward  the  man  who  also  must  be  free. 

With  face  turned  toward  the  sun, 

Strong  and  radiant-limbed, 

I  advance,  singing, 

And  my  song  is  as  free 

As  the  soul  from  which  it  flows. 

I  advance  toward  that  which  is,  but  was  not; 

I,  the  free  woman,  advance  singing, 

And  with  face  turned  toward  the  sun. 

Let  Ignorance  and  Tyranny 

Tremble  at  the  sound  of  my  feet. 

"When  thou  prayest,  enter  into  thy  closet  and 
pray  to  thy  Father  in  secret,  and  he  shall  reward 
thee  openly." 

The  word  Secret  is  derived  from  Secretions.  The 
upper  brain,  the  Cerebrum,  contains  the  secretions, 
gray  matter,  creative,  or  that  creates,  builds  and  sup- 
plies all  life-force  of  the  human  temple. — Soul  of 
Man's  (Solomon's  temple).  Hence  God,  the  Crea- 
tor, dwells  in  you.  The  cerebrum  is  his  throne. 
Prayer  or  desires  expressed  by  man  in  the  cerebellum 
for  righteousness,  is  answered  in  the  cerebrum.  Thus 

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Optic  Thalmus 

by  prayer  to  God  within,  and  in  no  other  way,  can 
man  overcome  the  adversary  or  the  "carnal  mind 
which  is  at  enmity  to  God." 

Let  us  now  consider  the  Virgin  Mary. 
Virgin,  pure.     Mar-y,   or  mare,  water.     Virgin 
Mary,  pure  water.    Pure  Sea.    Pure  Ether  or  spirit. 
Fish  come  out  of  the  water.     The  water,  or  fluids, 
of  the  body  give  birth  to  the  seed,  or  fish. 

The  Virgin  Mary  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Allegory 
after  the  ascension  of  the  Christed  Jesus — the  re- 
deemed fish.  Each  person,  male  or  female,  must 
"work  out  their  own  salvation" 

All  so-called  sex  reform,  that  tolerates  union  of 
sexes,  may  be  answered  by : 
"There  is  a  way  that 
Seemeth  right  to  man 
The  end  of  which  is  death." 
"In  my  Kingdom  there  is  no  marrying  nor 

giving  in  marriage, 
But  they  are  as  the 
Angels  in  Heaven." 

Eden,  good  dwelling  place,  and  Promised  Land, 
mean  the  same.  The  children,  molecules,  of  Israel, 
blood,  crossed  the  Jordan  in  order  to  reach  Eden. 

Jordan  is  the  spinal  cord,  and  the  pneumo-gastric 
nerve  crosses,  at  the  junction  of  this  cord,  with  the 
body  known  as  Medulla  oblongata,  and  thus  connects 
with  the  cerebellum,  which  is  the  anteroom  or  Eden 
— the  head — the  "Thalmus"  or  chamber  that  con- 
tains the  "Single  Eye,"  the  pineal  gland  and  upper 
brain  or  cerebellum. 

Eden's  garden  is  the  human  body. 
The    solar    (center)    plexus,    with    the    pneumo- 
gastric  plexus  and  its  branches,  is  the  "Tree  of  Life." 
The  pneumo-gastric  nerve  is    also  called  vagus 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

nerve,  beacuse  its  branches  wander.  Vagrant,  wan- 
dering, is  from  vagus,  to  wander. 

"A  river  went  out  of  Eden  to  water  the  garden, 
and  from  thence  it  was  parted  and  became  four 
heads.  The  name  of  the  first  is  Pishon;  the  second, 
Gihon;  the  third,  Hiddekel;  the  fourth,  Euphrates. 
The  river  is  saliva.  Pishon  is  the  urine;  Gihon  is 
the  intestinal  tract;  Hiddekel  is  the  blood;  Euphrates 
the  nerve  fluids,  especially  the  creative. 

Abram  and  Sara,  or  Sarai,  had  the  letter  H  added 
to  their  names  when  the  angel  appeared  to  them  and 
gave  instructions.  See  Gen.  16,  17  and  18.  H  is 
from  Heth,  the  eighth  letter  of  the  Hebrew  alphabet, 
and  means  a  field  or  a  vision.  The  meaning  of  Heth 
(H)  is  given  in  the  Jewish  Kaballa  and  Tarot  card 
symbols  as  "Spiritual  Perception" — field,  or  vision. 

Sarah  gave  birth  to  Isaac  after  this  regeneration. 
Isaac  means  laughter,  a  symbol  of  happiness;  so  the 
story  is  a  symbol  of  physical  regeneration. 

The  story  of  Job  is  evidently  a  fable.  The  letters 
I.  O.  B.  (No  J  in  Hebrew  alphabet)  figures  up, 
numerically,  19,  which  means  "resplendent  light." 

Regeneration  develops  the  optic  thalmus,  or  single 
eye,  by  furnishing  the  oil  necessary  to  light  the  cham- 
ber or  Eden.  "And  the  temple  needs  no  light  of 
Sun,  Moon  or  Stars,"  &c. 

Job,  on  the  generative  plane,  his  experience  in  the 
Kingdom  of  Earth,  suffered  great  trials,  tribulations 
and  disease;  and  while  he  argued  much  about  God 
and  kept  his  faith,  he  failed  to  comprehend. 

But  after  he  became  regenerated,  he  exclaimed: 
"I  have  heard  of  thee  by  the  hearing  of  the  ear, 
but  now  mine  eye  seeth  thee."  Notice  mine  eye, 
not  eyes. 

So  here  we  have  another  proof  that  regeneration 
opens  the  Optic  Thalmus — the  eye  behind  the  eyes. 
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Optic  Thalmus 

And  now  in  closing: 

No  page  of  the  wonders  of  the  human  body — the 
temple  of  the  living  God — is  more  divinely  scientific 
than  the  parable  that  follows: 

"The  foolish  man  built  his  house  on  the  sand 
And  the  rain  washed  it  away." 
"The  wise  man  built  his  house  on  a  rock 
And  it  stood  the  storms,  for  it  was  builded  upon 
a  rock." 

The  Bible  is  a  compilation  of  astronomical,  physi- 
ological and  anatomical  symbols,  allegories  and  par- 
ables. 

In  the  technical  terms  of  modern  chemistry  and 
physiology,  the  above  text  is  explained  as  follows : 
Sand  and  cement  form  rock  or  stone.  Sand  alone, 
without  some  medium — cement — is  unstable,  simply 
"shifting  sand." 

The  Pineal  gland,  the  dynamo  that  runs  the  organ- 
ism of  man,  is  composed  of  sand  plus  a  cement,  an 
ointment,  a  smear,  found,  as  has  been  explained,  in 
large  quantity  in  the  spinal  cord,  also,  to  some  extent, 
in  all  parts  of  the  body.  When  this  cement  is  wasted, 
as  the  Prodigal  Son  wasted  his  substance  in  riotous 
living,  there  being  a  deficiency  of  this  precious  oil, 
the  pineal  gland  becomes  brittle,  and  does  not  vibrate 
at  a  rate  that  vitalizes  the  blood  and  tissue  at  the 
health  and  strength  rate,  and  the  house,  beth  or 
body,  falls. 

In  the  common  slang  of  the  hour,  we  say:  "He 
lacks  the  sand"  or  "grit." 

The  mineral  salts  of  blood  were  called  sand  or  salt 
by  Hebrews.  The  cell-salts  that  are  found  in  the 
pineal  gland  are  chiefly  potassium  phosphate,  the 
base  of  the  gray  matter  of  the  brain;  but  all  of  the 

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The  Tree  of  Life 

12  inorganic  salts  are  represented.  In  Revelations, 
the  pineal  gland  is  called  "The  white  stone/'  In 
Biochemistry,  the  phosphate  of  potassium  is  given  as 
the  birth-salts  of  Aries  people. 

Those  who  build  their  house  upon  a  rock  are  they 
who  conserve  the  substance  that  unites  with  the  sand 
— cell-salts — and  thus  forms  the  rock  upon  which  a 
body  may  be  built  that  will  be  free  from  sin  and 
sickness. 

The  mission  of  Jesus,  the  Christ,  was  to  triumph 
over  death  and  the  grave,  over  matter,  and  trans- 
mute his  body,  and  be  able,  also,  to  materialize  at 
will.  He  not  only  succeeded  in  doing  this,  but  stated 
most  emphatically  that  all  the  things  that  he  did,  we 
may  do  also. 

Did  he  proclaim  the  truth? 
Answer  thou  of  little  faith! 
"Rock  of  Ages  cleft  for  me, 
Let  me  hide  myself  in  thee." 

And  the  Christ  Substance  shall  create  the  cement 
that  completes  the  rock  surface  of  the  bridge  that 
crosses  the  three-span  gulf  between  the  shores  of 
conception  and  birth.  Thus  "Shall  Mortal  put  on 
immortality"  and  the  last  enemy,  death,  shall  be 


overcome." 


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A  Vision  of  Immortality 

T  seemed  to  me  that  it  was  noon  of  a 
perfect  day,  and  that  I  was  wide  awake. 
I  stood  upon  a  mountain  top  in  Southern 
California  and  looked  out  to  the  West. 
I  saw  the  clean  page  of  the  Balboa  Sea. 
Catalina  Island  reflected  its  hills  and  crags  in  the 
curling  mists  that  rose  and  twisted  about  like  things 
alive,  and  the  mirage  grew  and  spread  until  I  fancied 
that  the  new  Jerusalem  was  descending  out  of  the 
Heavens. 

Eastward  the  Sierra  Madre  peaks  lightly  veiled 
their  heads  with  mist  and  fleecy  clouds,  as  if  to  gently 
subdue  their  ineffable  glory.  I  saw  the  clean-trunked 
eucalypti,  the  pendant  pepper  boughs  and  the  orange 
groves.  A  shuttle-throated  mocking  bird  was  pouring 
liquid  melody  into  the  ears  of  Deity,  and  I  asked 
aloud,  "Is  not  this  immortality?  Am  I  not  im- 
mortal?" 

And  then  a  voice,  sweet  as  the  voice  of  the  Infinite 
Mother,  came  out  of  the  everywhere,  and  I  heard 
the  words,  "Yes!  you  are  immortal.  You  stood  in 
the  rush  of  Divine  Splendor  when  God  said:  'Let 
there  be  light.'  You  heard  the  morning  stars  chant 
the  Epic  of  Creation.  You  saw  the  first  procession 
of  the  Constellations.  You  saw  Orion  light  his  clus- 
tering lamp  out  in  the  wilderness  of  the  southern 
skies.  You  saw  Arcturus  rise  from  the  unknown  sea 
of  silence,  and  sentinel  the  Northern  Pole.  You  saw 
the  first  rushing,  blazing  Comet  emerge  from  the 
awful  realms  of  boundless  space,  sweep  across  meas- 

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'•The  Tree  of  Life 

ureless  reaches  of  star-dust,  bearing  upon  its  flaming 
front  the  glad  intelligence  that  the  rule  of  law  is 
perfect;  that  Suns,  Stars,  Systems  obey  the  Cosmic 
urge  and  obey  the  Eternal  Word.  And,  if  in  the 
operation  of  wisdom,  the  time  shall  come  when  the 
vast  fabric  of  creation  shall  rock  in  universal  spasm 
and  totter  to  its  fall,  if  the  elements  shall  melt  in 
fervent  heat,  the  last  Sun  die  and  the  'Heavens  be 
gathered  together  as  a  scroll,'  yet  thou,  oh  doubting 
one,  shall  stand  erect,  unafraid  and 

'O'er  the  ruins  smile 
And  light  thy  torch  again 
At  Nature's  funeral  pile.'  ' 

Then  I  heard  the  bugles  all  sing  truce  along  the 
iron  front  of  war.  I  saw  the  battle  flags  furled. 
Soldiers  were  transformed  into  men.  They  returned 
to  homes,  shops,  the  fields,  the  orchards  and  gardens. 
Children  laughed  and  women  loved.  The  headsman 
and  hangman  retired  and  became  forgotten  horrors. 
Grass  grew  over  the  battle  trenches,  flowers  bloomed 
over  deserted  forts,  vines  clambered  over  arsenals 
and  dreadnaughts  rusted  in  the  harbors.  Earth  was 
baptized  with  the  golden  light  of  love. 

With  the  "Eye  behind  the  eyes,"  "I  saw  the  Holy 
City  beside  the  tideless  Sea"  and  I  heard  the  Angels 
striking  all  their  harps  of  gold. 


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Scriptural  and  Scientific  Lectures 

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Dr.  George  W.  Carey 

Teacher  of 

Physical  Regeneration 

As  taught  in  Scriptures  and 
verified   by   Physiology 

Lessons  from  J 

PHYSIOLOGICAL  CHART 

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Temple  of  Astrology 

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(Entrance,  124  Sixth  St.) 

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Dr.  Carey's  epoch  making  book,  THE  TREE  OF 
LIFE,  and  other  books  on  the  Chemistry  of  Life,  on 
sale. 


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Biochemistry  are  more  interesting  than  'Science 
and  Health,'  and  more  fascinating  than  'Ben  Hur.' " 

From  The  Aletheian:     "We  are  in  receipt  of  a 
series  of  pamphlets  and  books  from  the  pen  of  Dr. 
George  W.  Carey,  who  handles  a  deeply  scientific 
subject  with  fascinating  clearness." 
Biochemistry    Versus    the    Germ    Theory    of 

Disease    lOc 

The  Twelve  Cell-Salts  and  the  Zodiac 25c 

Twelve  Lessons  on  the  Biochemic  Pathology  of 

Disease 50c 

Chemistry  of  the  Cosmos,  a  compilation  of  Dr. 
Carey's  writings,  poems,  and  epigrams.  The 
most  advanced  ideas  and  startling  theories 
of  this  age  are  set  forth  in  Carey's  inimita- 
ble style 50c 

ROAD  TO  THE  MOON 

The  most  wonderful  Occult  story  ever  written. 
Has  scientific  basis  and  deals  with  physical  regen- 
eration and  transmutation  of  flesh  as  taught  by 
ancient  scriptures  and  proven  by  physiology. 

Price  25c. 

Have  received  hundreds  of  letters  expressing  as- 
tonishment and  appreciation  of  this  story. 

W.  A.  Redding,  author  of  "Our  Near  Future"  and 
other  remarkable  books  on  prophecy,  writes:  "I 
believe  every  word  in  'Road  to  Moon.'  It  is  true." 
Address 

DR.  GEORGE  W.  CAREY 


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